RE: Is There a Difference Between Trusting Scientists and Trusting Preachers?
July 14, 2016 at 3:07 pm
(July 14, 2016 at 1:02 pm)robvalue Wrote: "It's reasonable to believe X because you can't prove X wrong" is the argument from ignorance. A logical fallacy. It's not a sensible position for anyone trying to be scientific to take. Someone would only take it with a conclusion they want to be true. Why else why you start from a specific conclusion and work backwards?Yet, it has been proven that X is totally wrong, impossible, improbable and otherwise nonexistent.
Just saying "You can't prove X to be wrong" is simply observing it's (currently) unfalsifiable. Science doesn't deal with such useless claims.
https://youtu.be/BzxMXzdaxtI
When you take a deity out of the ineffable never world of heaven and put it into human history, you make it not only falsifiable but false.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
