“Intelligence,” OUT OF NOTHINGNESS!

[Esquilax]

You and many others, like you, think I am “IGNORANT,” “ILLITERATE,” “ETC.,” but what you say about Thomas Nagel who is an atheist and not a proponent of intelligent design (ID).

I'd say that I don't care. Nagel makes the same mistakes you do in the quote you left here, and I don't give a flying fuck whether he's an atheist, a spaceman, or god himself, he's still demonstrably wrong. He commits the same argument from ignorance that you do, when he states that the improbability of something means it's impossible. He conflates evolution and abiogenesis, just as you do. He's wrong, and I'm prepared to say that on this topic, atheist or no, he's just as ignorant as you are.

"Hey look, here's an atheist who agrees with me!" isn't an argument. In fact, it's an argument from authority fallacy.

Besides, all this skips over the actual issue here, the one that I addressed in my post, which is that you, Harris, have literally no idea what evolution is, and that if you wanted to discuss evolution you should fix that.

Because right now, it's kinda like if I came to you and asked to discuss your particular religion, right? Only a few minutes into my rebuttal of it, it becomes really clear that what I'm actually talking about is Star Trek, and saying that your religion can't be true because transporters don't exist. And then you tell me that I'm talking about Star Trek and not your religion, but I just ignore you and keep telling you about Star Trek.

Would you take me seriously, in that discussion? Would you even consider it a conversation about your religion at all?

That's what it's like, talking to you about evolution.