RE: Atheism the unscientific belief (part one, two, and three)
January 7, 2016 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2016 at 12:20 pm by Angrboda.)
(January 7, 2016 at 5:29 am)Little Rik Wrote:(January 6, 2016 at 3:33 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Babies have two legs.
Ducks have two legs.
Therefore babies fly south for the winter. Also go great in a curry.
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Analogies sometime make sense while other times do not ...
(January 6, 2016 at 2:03 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: The nucleus doesn't perform a function even remotely like a brain. And the same goes for the cell membrane. Your author has overreached. "As Hume states the relevant rule of analogy, "wherever you depart in the least, from the similarity of the cases, you diminish proportionably the evidence; and may at last bring it to a very weak analogy, which is confessedly liable to error and uncertainty" (Hume, Dialogues, Part II)."(http://www.iep.utm.edu/design/) Your author has departed greatly from the similarity of the cases. Really? The cell membrane is like a brain? No it is not.
(January 7, 2016 at 5:29 am)Little Rik Wrote: I believe that a body without any consciousness can not possibly exist.
Nobody gives a flying fuck what you 'believe' based on your Yoga, we care what you have evidence for. So far the only thing you've used to support your belief is bad analogies, bare assertions, and what you believe based on Yoga. That's not evidence. Anybody can spin similar stories about most anything. ("A cell is like a factory. Factories have smoke stacks. Therefore a cell has a smokestack, it's just nonphysical and can't be seen." )
RationalWiki Wrote:A false analogy is a logical fallacy that occurs when someone applies facts from one situation to another situation but the situations are substantially different and the same conclusions cannot logically be drawn.
Sometimes these differences are outright ignored by the person presenting the fallacy; other times, they may not be aware of the differences. The fallacy occurs, and is common, because real-world parallels are always limited; the differences between things can often overpower their similarities.
Analogies and metaphors can be very useful to explain things to people and often play an important part in learning. However, because of the prevalence of false analogies they're much less useful in making arguments.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/False_analogy
Wikipedia Wrote:Joseph C. Keating, Jr., PhD,[34] discusses vitalism's past and present roles in chiropractic and calls vitalism "a form of bio-theology." He further explains that:
"Vitalism is that rejected tradition in biology which proposes that life is sustained and explained by an unmeasurable, intelligent force or energy. The supposed effects of vitalism are the manifestations of life itself, which in turn are the basis for inferring the concept in the first place. This circular reasoning offers pseudo-explanation, and may deceive us into believing we have explained some aspect of biology when in fact we have only labeled our ignorance. 'Explaining an unknown (life) with an unknowable (Innate),' suggests philosopher Joseph Donahue, D.C., 'is absurd'."
Wikipedia | Vitalism
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