RE: Young Earth Creationism Vs. Science (Statler Waldorf Contd)
November 22, 2010 at 8:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2010 at 8:55 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(November 22, 2010 at 8:21 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Obviously you have never been formally trained in logic. What I set up was a completely valid logical syllogism. No wonder you guys are all Atheists, you have built your beliefs on a very shaky logical foundation.
You set up a valid logical syllogism based on a faulty and erroneous premise that lacks empirical evidence, just like all creationists. Lethe's answer to your statements is not wrong and moreover you never addressed her actual statement as she made it. Your attempt at misdirection to address the issue that she has been brought up is showing once more.
(November 22, 2010 at 8:21 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Ok, you just made another assertion. Prove it's (there is more than one creation journal btw) a fraud. I suggest you either put up or shut up. Making baseless assertion may be good enough for you and your Atheistic friends (since you're not basing yoru beliefs on a rational foundation), it's not for me thoughAnother case of the pot calling the kettle black? Interesting.
Theists still have the burden of proof and you've made no effort whatsoever to prove any claim you've ever made but just by being a creationist you've ignored or outright disregarded and attacked just about every major scientific discipline known to man.
Seriously - the same physics that allowed you to have a working cell phone and orbital GPS system is all thanks to the same physics used to determine that the universe is billions of years old older than an earth that is also billions of years old. Evolutionary sciences is what makes modern medicine and agriculture possible and is still paving the way for future advancements that would have been impossible without an intimate understanding of the topic.
Creationism has led to nothing and all of the foundational ideas are irrelevant to modern applications. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding.
The entire modern world exists because of everything you have already denied as being true because of your illogical preference for your imaginary friend that, after millendia of recorded human history, still has made absolutely no traces of ever existing or causing anything to happen to provide evidence for a hypothosis that has less standing in the scientific community than even the least substantial scientific hypothosis for the entire reason that all scientific hypothosises have its roots in empirical evidence.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan