RE: Scientific Debate: Why I assert that Darwin's theory of evolution is false
November 3, 2014 at 8:33 pm
(November 3, 2014 at 8:10 pm)Heywood Wrote: You claimed that the results of the experiment show that God is not necessary.
Actually what I said was the experiment indicated that no gods were required. I said nothing about necessity, nor have I shifted focus to the "God" character specifically. You're the one strawmanning my position.
(November 3, 2014 at 8:10 pm)Heywood Wrote: I made an argument that there must exist something with attributes commonly ascribed to God for the experiment to behave they way they do.
Precisely. You posited an entity outside the observed system that is not inferred by that system nor required for its conclusion. The burden of proof is on your positive existential claim.
(November 3, 2014 at 8:10 pm)Heywood Wrote: Really the only credible counter argument to save your position would be to argue that something which conserves itself and the laws of nature isn't necessary for the experiments to behave the way they do. You chose not to do that and instead focus on arguing that God does not exist.
Your initial claim was unsubstantiated and your defense of it was impotent.
I only eat herring on a Friday.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
