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Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
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RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
(December 5, 2012 at 10:33 am)Rhythm Wrote: -Or- you could explain how it is.......you know, engage in that discussion you desire.
(you seem to be missing a key variable in your question btw)

Pro-tip


Did you come up with this yourself or did you copy and paste it?

Along your first interpretation, it's absolutely false. Consider this analogy "In the United States, the probability of winning the lottery is exactly 1 in 1. But for Bob, because, well, there Bob is with his winning ticket."

That's not how probability works. In fact there's a name for the kind of fallacy you are using here. The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy.

It's when someone fires randomly at the side of a barn, and then draws bulls-eyes around the bullet-hole and calls himself a sharpshooter. Ie, you are using data that is not meant to give us proper probability.

That was my pro-tip, by the way.
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RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism? - by Vincenzo Vinny G. - December 5, 2012 at 4:38 pm

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