Disproving Odin - An Experiment in arguing with a theist with Theist logic

[Succubus]

This is all really fascinating.

So Huggy is telling us that there's this thing that is beyond scientific understanding, but he understands it. He knows better than all the scientific minds in the world. It's really hard for me to get my head round this. It's as if he views science as some sort of primitive attempt to gain truth, and when that doesn't work, the big guns step in and use their feelings, incredulity and assertions instead. He doesn't seem to notice the immediate problem that everyone who does this can come up with any answer they like, and there's no way to tell who is right, if anyone.

(Either that or he's just parroting what some other guy said, as if that makes it true.)

This is part 8 of an excellent series, which I recommend watching all of, but this part is concerned with the kind of thinking Huggy is displaying here.

I have determined, after extensive surveying, tabulation, and data analysis, that the average creationist in the US earns $21,387.29 in family income; owns 1.2 cars, 1.8 TVs, and 2.3 kids; and has, at some point in his life, answered to the name “Bubba.” He has less than one year of college. Yet he knows more about paleontology than Bakker or Horner or Currie (or he thinks that what they know is wrong–same thing). He knows more about the definition of evolution than Gould or Dawkins. He knows more about biology than Dobzhansky or Mayr. He knows more about cosmology than Hawking, Smoot, or Witten, and more about human fossils than Johanson or the Leakeys. He knows more “true” geology than geologists, more physics than physicists, more astronomy than astronomers–and more about everything than atheists like Asimov or Sagan.

Humble, they’re not.

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