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Ad Hoc Hypothesis
October 19, 2010 at 1:16 pm
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
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RE: Ad Hoc Hypothesis
October 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Ad Hoc Hypothesis
October 19, 2010 at 1:46 pm
(October 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Ah the lengths people will go to to hold on to cherished ideas, the new member Statler comes to mind here.
I haven't delved into Statler's posts yet but I had thought just how odd a choice that is for a Christian poster name. You'd think Statler and Waldorf would be the skeptics, mocking and deriding Fozzie the Apologist Bear.
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RE: Ad Hoc Hypothesis
October 19, 2010 at 2:04 pm
(October 19, 2010 at 1:46 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: (October 19, 2010 at 1:22 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Ah the lengths people will go to to hold on to cherished ideas, the new member Statler comes to mind here.
I haven't delved into Statler's posts yet but I had thought just how odd a choice that is for a Christian poster name. You'd think Statler and Waldorf would be the skeptics, mocking and deriding Fozzie the Apologist Bear.
You should visit he's a laugh a minute.
I thought that about the name too! but maybe he just likes muppets and who can blame him.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Ad Hoc Hypothesis
October 19, 2010 at 5:11 pm
The slippery slope is sometimes true. A sometimes does lead to B. It's a logical fallacy when you ASSUME that A will inevitably lead to B without any evidence to support that assumption.
Correlation sometimes does mean causation. It's a logical fallacy when you ASSUME that correlation means causation without evidence to support that assumption.
There are ad hocs that are appropriate. See carbon dating. It works under all circumstances except for specified ones. It's a logical fallacy when apologists utilize it to keep their mythology intact despite all the contrary evidence.
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RE: Ad Hoc Hypothesis
October 20, 2010 at 1:26 pm
(October 19, 2010 at 1:46 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: You'd think Statler and Waldorf would be the skeptics, mocking and deriding Fozzie the Apologist Bear.
He
is a skeptic. He seems very skeptical of some of the widely held scientific theories.
His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20 ESV
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RE: Ad Hoc Hypothesis
October 20, 2010 at 2:01 pm
He has 0 skepticsm for the bible, you are like 2 peas in a pod.
