RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
February 21, 2016 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2016 at 2:08 pm by Cyberman.)
(February 21, 2016 at 1:17 pm)AAA Wrote:(February 21, 2016 at 1:15 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Which must be why you aren't concerned about holding ID to the same standard of peer review as actual scientific papers. You have to know, at least on some level, that it cannot withstand the scrutiny.
I think they should be held to the same standard, but they aren't.
Well they are, just not by you by your own admission. They are both held to the standard of peer review. Anyone can submit a paper for publication, even if they have to start their own journals to do it. That's not the point. They have to be able to withstand strict, expert criticism; more importantly, whatever doesn't survive the process either serves to correct what does, or worst case scenario toss it in the shredder altogether. The process is self-correcting; junk science, on balance, will always be caught in the filter.
It's not the critics' fault that ID claims don't pass muster. Get better claims.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
