RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 9, 2014 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2014 at 12:27 am by Revelation777.)
(May 7, 2014 at 5:59 pm)Cato Wrote:(May 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: You'll been saying that numbers of people who believe something doesn't count for anything.
Because it doesn't!!! Science isn't settled by ballot and your emotions on the matter count for shit also. Millions of people believing in creationism doesn't give any credence to the position. Millions of people believing in creationism just proves there are millions of gullible idiots.
I don't care how rational or otherwise reasonable someone is; if people conclude that creationsim is a compelling explanation for our existence in the face of easily accesible fact to the contrary then those people are fucking idiots.
Well many of your government leaders, judges, law officers, etc. believe God created everything, does that make them idiots too?
(May 7, 2014 at 6:43 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(May 7, 2014 at 6:37 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: He posted a link in a reply to me. Basically, God is omnipotent, so God could have done it, and it doesn't have to make sense or be scientifically useful because God works in mysterious ways. Which isn't even a rebuttal to the contention that inherited retroviral insertions across species only make sense in the context of the theory of evolution.
I suppose if you're willing to invoke magic, you can "justify" belief in anything.
I don't believe in invoking magic, I believe in the Holy Bible.
(May 7, 2014 at 7:16 pm)Clueless Morgan Wrote:(May 7, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: You'll been saying that numbers of people who believe something doesn't count for anything.
But you are arguing as though it does matter how many people believe a thing, and in the case of scientific experts who accept the theory of evolution, not laymen, the numbers are wholly, unflinchingly and categorically against you.
Arguing from your parameters (that the number of experts who accept a thing is true has some bearing on it actually being true), you have been squashed like a bug by a factor of at least 10.
If this were a valid way to evaluate evidence (by popularity), than you should defending the theory of evolution, not arguing against it. The fact that you think 650 scientists going on record as believing in a 6-day creation actually means something tells the rest of us that you don't have the first clue about how fallacious your arguments are, though I think the rest of us knew that all along.
Once you understand why appealing to the number of experts you agree with you doesn't matter (as many people have done, read the posts preceding mine here for the explanation), then you'll understand why appealing to the number of experts who believe a majority position doesn't matter. All that matters is the evidence, not how many people you can get to stand behind you on the playground, and in the case of evolution, the evidence is overwhelmingly in support of the theory.
And the most educated and brilliant men of Jesus' day thought He was wrong,,,but guess what? He was right and they were wrong.