RE: Your Views on Dawkins?
December 18, 2012 at 5:01 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2012 at 5:02 am by Cato.)
(December 18, 2012 at 4:35 am)clemdog14 Wrote: Mr. Philosophy major is a little belittling and feels like an ad hominem argument.Bullshit. Is this part of the ubiquitous christian persecution complex? The only reason the 'Mr. Philosophy major' feels belittling is that you invoked ad hominem inappropriately, not to mention the fact that you just did again.
Quote:Furthermore, Dawkins said that God was more improbable than "as a hurricane ripping through a junkyard" not that evolution is more improbable.This is not what you conveyed in your original description. I even pointed out your use of a hyphen to hide the fact that you understand more than you let on, but wish to misquote to make a point.
Quote:On a separate note, my whole argument was based not on whether it is an either or statement (either there is the existence of God or there is unguided evolution). Rather, the whole argument was whether Dawkins could ascertain one over the other based on their low probabilities. Not scientifically, philosophically.
You would like to conflate terms to make it an either/or proposition, but you have no evidence. You use the term probability much like your hero William Lane Craig uses it, haphazardly and without understanding. Care to get sophisticated and plug it into Bayes' theorem?
Probabilities can be assigned to coin tosses or rolls of the die because the 'outcomes' are observable. Your god is not observable; therefore, the probability remains zero.