RE: Dinosaurs Weren't in the Bible...They Never Even Existed.
November 22, 2011 at 8:19 am
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2011 at 8:25 am by orogenicman.)
Statler Wrote:
Haha, I am arguing exactly how atheists argue, so if you think it’s dumb then….LOL
orogenicman Wrote:
No sir. You aren't making any meaningful arguments. You are simply being an ass.
Statler Wrote:
Exactly the point.
Me: So you agree that you are an ass. Congratulations.
Quote orogenicman:
I can't "prove" that you exist either, but I'd be naive to argue from ignorance that you don't.
Statler Wrote:
That you would, but arguing against the existence of God however is even more absurd than arguing against my existence.
Me:
The problem with that argument is that:
1) Atheists don't argue against the existence of God. They argue against any emperic evidence for the existence of God.
2) There is emperic evidence that you exist.
No, we are asking for an inductive argument concerning the existence of God. Got anything like that?
There certainly are good inductive arguments for the existence of dinosaurs. It is when creationists use deductive reasoning to argue anything gleened from inductive evidence that they are led astray. Hence we find that there are creationists who believe that the Flintstones is a documentary.
Haha, I am arguing exactly how atheists argue, so if you think it’s dumb then….LOL
orogenicman Wrote:
No sir. You aren't making any meaningful arguments. You are simply being an ass.
Statler Wrote:
Exactly the point.
Me: So you agree that you are an ass. Congratulations.
Quote orogenicman:
I can't "prove" that you exist either, but I'd be naive to argue from ignorance that you don't.
Statler Wrote:
That you would, but arguing against the existence of God however is even more absurd than arguing against my existence.
Me:
The problem with that argument is that:
1) Atheists don't argue against the existence of God. They argue against any emperic evidence for the existence of God.
2) There is emperic evidence that you exist.
Statler Wrote:I would agree with you, but induction deals with degrees of probability, when I use the word proof I am usually referring to deduction. A person couldn’t formulate a sound deductive argument for the existence of dinosaurs, and yet many of these same people ask for one concerning the existence of God.
No, we are asking for an inductive argument concerning the existence of God. Got anything like that?
There certainly are good inductive arguments for the existence of dinosaurs. It is when creationists use deductive reasoning to argue anything gleened from inductive evidence that they are led astray. Hence we find that there are creationists who believe that the Flintstones is a documentary.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
