RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
December 5, 2012 at 11:44 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2012 at 11:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 5, 2012 at 4:38 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote:So, in other words, you wouldn't like to elaborate. That's okay, I didn't expect you to anyway.(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?
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'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)?
That was my pro-tip, by the way.
-Of all the fucking things you could have officially gone all apologetic about, you chose fine tuning.......

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