RE: What are the evidence for no god?
October 18, 2015 at 6:20 pm
(This post was last modified: October 18, 2015 at 6:22 pm by robvalue.)
(October 18, 2015 at 3:35 pm)Evie Wrote: Robvalue is completely right. The onus is till on the creationist to give evidence to support creationism.
If evolution was proved wrong, that wouldn't make creationism right at all.
Attacking evolution is a red herring if you're trying to defend creationism. And in fact it's mostly what creationists do - attack evolution. They tend to never even attempt to defend their position at all, all they do is say "Well the Bible says the world was created" which isn't a defense.
Precisely. Trying to disprove evolution is no more a defence of creationism than trying to disprove gravity, or magnetic fields, or anything really. If your position is rational, you should be able to defend it rationally. If instead you have to attack an unrelated position which you pretend is the "only alternative" then you obviously have no confidence in your ability to speak for your own position.
At best, it's just a tu quoque fallacy. And like 99% of times, not only is it a fallacy but the target of it is not in any way equivalent.
Of course, this is no accident that this mistake is made. It's drilled into people's brains as propaganda. It's up to them whether they continue to parrot it mindlessly, or stop and consider our objections.
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