RE: reasons to believe, there is no God
March 3, 2010 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2010 at 5:32 pm by Violet.)
(March 2, 2010 at 9:11 pm)Tiberius Wrote:So long as your sample set wasn't based on such a small group, that would be fine Nonsense is it though? If you seek to debate the point that age ≠ wisdom: have at ye(March 2, 2010 at 9:04 pm)Saerules Wrote: No respectable hypothesis declares itself confirmed after only the second positive result.My sample set was much larger than that. 16 year olds have been telling me it for years, my friends and I used to say such nonsense when we were 16. Your further agreement with it only strengthens the hypothesis.
Quote:And I also disagree that you can tell that to any 16 year old and they will agree with you.
I know an 18 year old dog that would hardly understand... let alone agree... with the proposition.
Adrian Wrote:So your second attempt is to induce bad logic, a red herring, by insinuating that I didn't mean humans when it was taken as a given that I did, seeing as I referenced humans repeatedly in my original statement.Actually... that was a joke.
Quote:It's also almost certain that there must be some 16 year old humans (probably religious or not raised in a modern society, mind) who disagree with the idea that age ≠ wisdom.
Adrian Wrote:Go ahead then, find them and I'll change my hypothesis to "most 16 year olds".Where are the religious morons when you need them?
Quote:Further... the fact that 16 year olds might agree with it doesn't decrease the strength of the argument. I already presented my stance on the argument... if you had it in your head to debate it
adrian Wrote:It does when you take into account arrogance as a phase 16 year olds seem to suffer from, coupled with the fact that these same people, when matured, disagree with their previous stances.
People of all ages "suffer" arrogance. Not all of them mind... but I think Minimalist's picture sums up what I mean pretty clearly. If they disagree with the stance that age ≠ wisdom, then they have some serious things to learn.
I'm assuming that you disagree that age ≠ wisdom... in which case surely you have a better point than "16 year olds often agree with it at 16 and later retract it"?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day