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Just A Little Something To Piss Off Creationist Morons
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RE: Just A Little Something To Piss Off Creationist Morons
Quote:I love to talk on this subject.

Then learn that it is not "magic" and there is no fucking god.

You are demonstrating adherence to the Argument from Incredulity which, were I in a less polite mood, I would characterize as someone being too stupid to understand what is going on.


http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

Quote:he argument from incredulity is a logical fallacy that essentially relies on a lack of imagination in the audience.

As an example, creationists incessantly use some difficult-to-explain facet of biology as "proof" of a creator. The problem is that, though there is no non-design explanation for how precisely a certain organ could have evolved at the moment, one may be discovered in the future. Contrary to the instincts of many creationists, lack of an explanation does not justify confecting whatever explanation one would prefer. The inexplicable is just that, and does not justify speculation as proof.

Sometimes creationists compute the astronomical odds against a molecule having a certain structure from the simple probability of n atoms arranging themselves so. They gloss over the fact that chemical laws trim most of the extraneous possibilities away. For instance, there are many ways to theoretically arrange hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms in a molecule, but in reality, most of what forms is H2O.

Another form, the argument from personal incredulity, takes the form "I can't believe P, therefore not-P." Merely because one cannot believe that, for example, homeopathy is no more than a placebo does not magically make such treatment effective. Clinical trials are deliberately designed in such a way that an individual personal experience is not important compared to data in aggregate. Human beings have extremely advanced pattern recognition skills, to the extent that they are objectively poor judges of probability.


Rationalwiki is overly polite!

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RE: Just A Little Something To Piss Off Creationist Morons - by Minimalist - May 4, 2011 at 9:29 pm

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