(December 27, 2014 at 1:07 am)Esquilax Wrote: Agreeing with the factually correct position isn't going to save you, if you say stupid things.
His arguments were idiotic. There are logical means of countering God, though none of them work absolutely. "Rabbits eats their poo, yuck, no God" isn't one of them.
Quote:The novel I'm currently working on uses the word "the" more times than the Old Testament mentions god too, I'm sure. Does that mean, therefore, that my kinky romance novel is religious toward the word "the"? Or can we all just acknowledge that word usage is not a reliable indicator of the contents of the book, over... the contents of the book?
Reading Darwin's biography is a bit much. Your argument is snark - I don't do that (online).
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Newton may be, but Newton's ideas might not be. And if the book happened to use Newton's name a lot in reference to his ideas, would that too mean religious fervor to you? Or would you use Occam's Razor and just conclude that, perhaps, the writer was kinda bad at his job?
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The author of Darwin's biography was bad at his job by mentioning the subject? A book on Galapagos spends more time talking about the Beagle than the animals? It's very deliberate.
So why did the final have a question about Darwin's exercise habits? "If you see the Buddha walking down the road, hit him with a stick" = hero worship only interferes with learning a subject.
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Would a question on Darwin's exercise habits exclusively lead you to the conclusion of hero worship, or would you allow yourself to think other, perhaps less intellectually vapid thoughts on the subject? Based on the information I have now I agree that it's weird, but could it be, maybe, a tongue in cheek question to lighten the mood? Did it have some relevance to the subject at hand?
More broadly, do you always think "hero worship" when you see a single mention of a person in a test?
Usually I think 'hero worship' when a see a historical figure being put on a pedestal and given accolades.
Quote:The origin of life is an entirely unconnected field of study to what you came here to discuss. Did you pay much attention, in your class?
The origin of life was spoken of extensively, as it is part of the refutation of God. This isn't a class about evolutionary biology, it's "Darwin was Right, Bitches".
Quote:You may have had a lousy teacher, there.
So... you claim to know how the scientific method works, but you're gonna draw the conclusions you do from a sample size of one? Not only that, one college course?
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No, I'm going to relate an anecdote. If I were working on a theory, I'd write a paper proposal, not waste my time answering snark.
Okay, about snark. Communication is when two people exchange information, making a deliberate attempt to understand each other, in order to grow and learn. Snark is when people use language in an attempt to demonstrate intellectual superiority. They problem therein is that snark is inherently emotionally immature - even if you're right, you still look like an ass.
