(August 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Esquilax Wrote: the scientific community has earned that trust, where the religious one has not.
Says you. Creationists would point to scientific predictions 40 years ago that we were entering another ice age versus scientific warnings now about global warning. Were they lying then, or are they lying now? You would answer that those very reversals prove that science is open and religion is closed. He would laugh. I on the other hand, would simply advise care in being absolutely certain of anything...
(August 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Esquilax Wrote: [I disagree because] it's very close to something Ken Ham might say
...and THAT'S perilously close to being a reverse argument from authority, isn't it? If Ken Ham says the sun rose in the east yesterday, he might actually have a point.
(August 30, 2014 at 5:00 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Oh, and welcome.
Thanks. It's a pleasure to do reasoned debate, innit?