RE: Why Something Rather Than Nothing?
October 24, 2014 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: October 24, 2014 at 2:53 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Bullshit. Anything for which even trivial evidence is lacking can be trivially dismissed.
The difference between morons who impede progress, knowledge and understanding, and those who further all three is this:
Those who further progress knowledge and understanding don't assume anything that is not supported by evidence is meaningfully different from total bullshit, and recognize the worst possible bet is the bet on the chance that total bullshit happen to be true.
The morons believe the truth is what they think it is and evidence is a nice to have but totally dispensible prop, and things for which no evidence exists whatsoever still aquire a meningful probability of being true, sufficient for farty discussion if not a whole lot more, by virtue being wished to be true by morons.
The difference between morons who impede progress, knowledge and understanding, and those who further all three is this:
Those who further progress knowledge and understanding don't assume anything that is not supported by evidence is meaningfully different from total bullshit, and recognize the worst possible bet is the bet on the chance that total bullshit happen to be true.
The morons believe the truth is what they think it is and evidence is a nice to have but totally dispensible prop, and things for which no evidence exists whatsoever still aquire a meningful probability of being true, sufficient for farty discussion if not a whole lot more, by virtue being wished to be true by morons.
