RE: Atheism vs. God's Existence
May 26, 2016 at 6:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2016 at 7:08 pm by Gemini.)
(May 26, 2016 at 11:27 am)AAA Wrote:(May 25, 2016 at 8:27 pm)Gemini Wrote: With an argument that you yourself acknowledge experts in the relevant field would ignore, you bet it's near impossible to convince a skeptic.
Again, you cut out the core of the argument to make it look like I'm saying something different than I said. You really like to quote mine and cherry pick information. While I think most would ignore it, I think that the theory behind why it is acceptable still stands. And why are you so skeptical of design, but not skeptical of evolution? You ought to read a primary article on the evolution of some biological system and see how speculative and non-empirical it is.
There was a physics professor who was confounded by relativity denialists. They would come up to him in the halls of university agitating for their skepticism of Einstein's theories, they would sent him letters, invite him to debates, etc. One day he said to a colleague, "What is about relativity that brings these nuts out of the woodworks?"
His colleague replied, "Nothing. They're everywhere. There are chemistry denialists."
The reason I'm not skeptical of evolution is that one should believe that there exist some scientific discoveries that are true. If I adjust my epistemology of testimony to throw out the theory of evolution--despite the fact that an overwhelming consensus of experts support it--then I must literally disbelieve every scientific fact ever discovered.
Because for any scientific discovery, from heliocentricity to relativity to chemistry to the germ theory of disease to evolution--there exist of clutch of eccentric skeptics who are committed to denying it.
A Gemma is forever.