RE: [split] Critical Thinking Skills
March 25, 2013 at 9:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2013 at 9:10 pm by jstrodel.)
Quote:But atheism is just a lack in belief in god, I didn't realize you needed to go to atheism ed...
Not saying you have to goto college, I am saying you don't know what you are talking about and you are brainwashed. Look, this is not intended to be mean, I love you and care about you, this is why I am saying this. Some atheists know logic well, some are very advanced in philosophy and science. You don't know logic. It is not because I disagree with you that I am saying this, it is because I sincerely care about you because you are deceived and you think that you can just think your way through things, and you can't do this. I care because this was how i was when I was younger and you sort of remind me of me.
Quote:It doesn't. If it does, then why not explain it? How is a chemist an authority on biology?
You are establishing the epistemological basis for the argument from authority. Why is the biologists authority legitimate? Because he knows more than the chemist.
Look, Darkstar, I care about you and I am not intending to insult you, but you don't realize how bound up your mind is in false ideas. You literally have no idea what you talk about when you talk about logic. This is evident from the above statement. I would just emphatically urge you to read some books outside your atheist view of the world, because you are a smart person.
I'm sure when you get older you will be a successful person, maybe very succesful, I don't know what you want to do when you get older. You seem like a nice enough person. It wouldn't surprise me if you have a higher IQ than I do. I am not trying to be mean to you, I am just pointing out that you don't know what you are talking about, at all, in the same way that someone who tried to practice medicine (which is what you are doing when you talk about the nature of morality and God, something very dangerous) but did not have the credentials to practice, that is what you are doing.
Why not just read more widely and listen to people who have different views than you?