(June 10, 2015 at 12:23 pm)SteveII Wrote: And here it the crux of the matter. "All we know points to this". Someone could argue that the information contained in the "all" is insufficient to come to the massive extrapolated conclusions that it does
No, you're right: we should ignore all of the evidence and go with something that has no evidence at all, because if we don't have perfect certainty then an idea is exactly equal to every other idea, no matter the level of evidence behind it.
Quote:. I DO NOT want to argue evolution and this study and that. The more honest of you keep admitting it is not a certainty.
So, your religion is so not anti-science, that it also hasn't prevented you from understanding that all of science is probabilistic, and doesn't give certainty on any issue, I assume? Which would rather make your assertion that the current models are insufficient without certainty completely inappropriate and useless...
It's almost enough to make me question why you'd make those irrelevant assertions at all, given that your religion hasn't stopped you from understanding basic tenets of the scientific method!
Quote:Until it move much further down the path of certainly (how far, I realize, is subjective) your basis for mocking people who doubt it's extrapolated conclusions seems unfounded.
Yeah, sorry, but I'm not going to sit here and countenance your blatant goalpost shifting in order for you to prevent acceptance of common ancestry from ever being reasonable. It's dishonest in the extreme, it shows that you have no understanding of science or probabilistic reasoning, and it demonstrates a profoundly unrealistic approach to epistemology, and the blatant special pleading involved in your dismissal of things with huge amounts of evidence based on a lack of certainty, while simultaneously accepting things with no evidence at all (your religion) because you want to.
Top to bottom, your desperate scrabbling to lower modern biology to the level of your religion is absurd.
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