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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 4:38 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote:
(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?
So, in other words, you wouldn't like to elaborate. That's okay, I didn't expect you to anyway.

Quote: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."
It's not even a tiny smidgeon false. Read very carefully. Your analogy however, is pathetic. But for Bob what? If Bob has a winning ticket in his hands what is the probability of him winning the lottery Vinny? Or does this only count when the guy holding the ticket is god?

Quote: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 is exactly how probability works, or more precisely..how it doesn't when you attempt to reach a conclusion about the likelihood of an event that's already happened by way of granting any given cause for shits and giggles.

Quote: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.
That's not exactly what it is, but close enough. Maybe you could elaborate on the mountains of data I'm ignoring (-then- you could claim I was using the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy)?

-Of all the fucking things you could have officially gone all apologetic about, you chose fine tuning....... Jerkoff I suppose it was only a matter of time.
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RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism? - by The Grand Nudger - December 5, 2012 at 11:44 pm

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