(July 6, 2012 at 12:10 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: In other words you'd make the biased judgment towards the Christian on the excuse that you went to a "Christian college" and are a Christian yourself.
...uh, no. I didn't say that. I didn't imply that. You're just seeing what you want to see, broheme.
Quote:Pay no mind to the fact that a vast majority of young-earth creationists come from Christian colleges; this is YOUR perception and opinion.
That's not even the right conditional probability. The question isn't "What's the probability that a young-earth creationist came from a Christian college?" It would be, "What's the probability that a person who came from a Christian college is a young-earth creationist?"
It might be that almost every young-earth creationist comes from a Christian college, but that the huge majority of people who attend Christian colleges aren't young-earth creationists. (What the actual numbers are, I don't know--but P(A|B) isn't the same as P(B|A), which any sophomore who's taken P&S could tell you.)
Quote:What you may call smart, I may call ridiculously ignorant and vice versa. Point is, you WOULD choose the Christian then, yes?
Um, I don't even think I'd give a preference to having any college education; I certainly don't give two shits about the religious affiliation of the applicant's university. Degrees don't make you smart.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
