(October 20, 2017 at 10:54 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(October 20, 2017 at 10:42 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Here's an example of another missing link. You're looking at a river from behind a fence, so you can't take a closer look at it. The river has a bridge over it. You can see the river flowing to one side of the bridge, and flowing away from the other side of the bridge. But you can't see that part obscured by the bridge. Due to that missing information, are you justified in concluding that the hypothesis that the water that flows towards the bridge is the same water that comes out from under it on the other side is one that is unsupported because there is a bridge over part of the river so you can't see the whole thing? Or does any other hypothesis require much more unjustified speculation than the obvious one that the river is actually flowing under the bridge, even though you can't see that little bit of it?
Not my analogy, btw, though I have tried to improve it.
The God of the Gaps gambit is ludicrous. Just because we don't have every single skeleton of every single being that ever lived doesn't no mean evolution is disproven or that someone's imaginary friend is hiding between the samples.
It's admittedly a genius strategy to keep the duped duped. I mean, if there's a missing link, and I discover a transitional fossil--well now there's two missing links where there was only one!
----->fossil----->missing link----->fossil
----->fossil----->new missing link!-----> newly discovered fossil----->new missing link!----->fossil
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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