Is atheism a scientific perspective?
December 27, 2016 at 9:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2016 at 9:38 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(December 27, 2016 at 7:04 pm)AAA Wrote:(December 27, 2016 at 3:18 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Textbook definition of the argument from ignorance fallacy.
How does it feel to base your ID belief on an ever receding pocket of ignorance?
I don't see a receding pocket of ignorance, I see a continuous decline in possible alternative explanations.
(December 27, 2016 at 3:32 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Oh, I most certainly have! As I said...go back and re-read through the endless pages of your own past threads, and perhaps refresh your memory.
It's as I said before: the ID "argument" is NOT an argument. You have never once produced a shred of evidence demonstrating the mechanisms by which your designer has accomplished his design, not to mention an explanation for who or what this designer is, and by what facts and evidence you came to those conclusions. When you can bring those things to the table, you have an argument for which I may choose to participate in. Until then, I'm not going to waste time pointing out fallacies that have been pointed out to you time and time again.
I don't have to provide a mechanism by which the designer designed the system. Given that logic, you do not believe that your computer was designed, because you almost certainly do not know how they did it.
Are you suggesting that there does not exist physical, observable, testable, repeatable evidence demonstrating how computers are designed, lol?
(December 27, 2016 at 7:46 pm)AAA Wrote:(December 27, 2016 at 7:39 pm)Astreja Wrote: Well, seeing as I've programmed computers and built and rebuilt computers and installed PROMs in computers and soldered computer components and etched circuit boards and attended an Intel seminar on the 8086 microprocessor, I'm calling argumentum ex rectum on your attempt to dodge the burden of proof in this instance.
Congratulations. How about your car? Do you design those? Do you know how it was designed? The point is that we don't have to know how something was designed to rationally infer that it was.
But if you WANTED to learn how your car was designed you could, because the science and technology actually exist. The mechanisms of said design are reproducible and demonstrable. They have been studied, tested, improved upon, taught, implemented, and...surprise! You drive a car along with the rest of us. Your analogy is...not a good one.
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Wiser words were never spoken.