RE: The more you attend Church, the more likely you are so support Torture.
December 23, 2014 at 12:53 pm
(December 23, 2014 at 11:53 am)alpha male Wrote: These arguments are examples of the slippery slope fallacy. You wouldn't accept a theist saying regarding gay marriage that once the gates are open, there's no telling what might slip through - marriage to children, animals, groups, etc. This is the same thing.Yes, the concern that allowing one thing may lead to an extension of that thing is a slippery slope fallacy, though the concern over allowing the government expanded power without the necessary transparency is not.
"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
