RE: Garden of Eden was a setup...
December 10, 2014 at 6:40 am
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2014 at 6:41 am by Tonus.)
(December 9, 2014 at 9:57 pm)Beccs Wrote: What's the fallacy called when Hitler is brought into the conversation?Godwin's Law. The longer an online discussion drags on, the greater the likelihood that Hitler or the Nazis will be mentioned.
As for the wrangling over heat and cold, I would note that the definition "absence of heat" is ambiguous. It is cold today, 30 degrees Fahrenheit. But that doesn't mean that heat is absent, or it would be zero degrees Kelvin. If it's just relative, then a 90 degree day would also be "cold" unless we determine some upper bound for "cold," in which case the first definition applies.
Let me know when we're done with the "absence of" word games and then we can get to discussing how Adam and Eve introduced smallpox into the world.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
