(January 21, 2009 at 3:30 pm)bozo Wrote:An argument is simply a series of statements that attempts to convince the opponent of the proponent's position (or otherwise justify/refute a claim). Pointing out the staggering improbability of a claim, while not the most rigorous of refutations, constitutes such an attempt. No?(January 21, 2009 at 2:20 pm)DD_8630 Wrote:(January 20, 2009 at 6:22 pm)bozo Wrote: I prefer not to give you an argument.Is that not an argument, though?
I prefer to say that it is far more probable that a supernatural, divine, invisible etc.etc. being doesn't actually exist.
No,it's a statement. It's about " probability ".
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone. - Charles Darwin