RE: Stupid things religious people say
January 5, 2025 at 5:36 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2025 at 6:24 pm by Sheldon.)
Quote:William Lane Craig: "Or take the belief that the world was created five minutes ago; how could you prove scientifically that the world was not created five minutes ago with built-in memory traces in our brains, food in our stomachs from lunches that we never really ate, and other appearances of age?"
William Lane Craig is bat shit crazy of course, though I'd use the word falsify, not disprove, and science certainly can falsify this bizarre notion, there is overwhelming objective evidence to establish the universe is 13.8 billion years old, to within a margin of 200 million years, and that the earth is 4.543 billion years old. If he thinks that doesn't falsify this idea, then he doesn't understand what falsify means. It's clear despite his grandiose claims to be a professional philosopher, he doesn't understand what an argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy is, he uses them all the time in his apologetics.