RE: Would you be an atheist if science and reason wasn't supportive of atheism?
December 7, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Rythm, you're starting off at two different positions.
Yours is that we know this Universe exists.
Vinnie's position is that he doesn't know that the universe exists.
And then you proceed to calculate your probabilities.... and of course you arrive at different results. Both results are correct, given the prior knowledge you're putting into the calculations.
Now you may argue that it doesn't make sense to neglect the usage of the prior knowledge of "the universe exists". But, after having read everything that I've read from you, I'd expect that you'd have make this bit clear by now... but no.
Because you didn't make it clear, vinnie kept going with his assumption...
You should now that you have to make everything crystal clear when you're talking to an apologist, right? If you leave them some wiggle room, they'll go in there and keep wiggling away.
Yours is that we know this Universe exists.
Vinnie's position is that he doesn't know that the universe exists.
And then you proceed to calculate your probabilities.... and of course you arrive at different results. Both results are correct, given the prior knowledge you're putting into the calculations.
Now you may argue that it doesn't make sense to neglect the usage of the prior knowledge of "the universe exists". But, after having read everything that I've read from you, I'd expect that you'd have make this bit clear by now... but no.
Because you didn't make it clear, vinnie kept going with his assumption...
You should now that you have to make everything crystal clear when you're talking to an apologist, right? If you leave them some wiggle room, they'll go in there and keep wiggling away.
