RE: Stump the Christian?
June 10, 2015 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2015 at 1:20 pm by SteveII.)
(June 10, 2015 at 12:34 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Yeah, sorry, but I'm not going to sit here and countenance your blatant goalpost shifting in order for you to prevent acceptance of common ancestry from ever being reasonable. It's dishonest in the extreme, it shows that you have no understanding of science or probabilistic reasoning, and it demonstrates a profoundly unrealistic approach to epistemology, and the blatant special pleading involved in your dismissal of things with huge amounts of evidence based on a lack of certainty, while simultaneously accepting things with no evidence at all (your religion) because you want to.
Top to bottom, your desperate scrabbling to lower modern biology to the level of your religion is absurd.
I am not shifting a goalpost by suggesting it was in the wrong place to start with. There is a different between reasonably assuming a premise to be true and reasonably assuming a premise to be true and mock all others who don't see it the same way. Everything about evolution is reasonable. I said 10 pages ago that evolution should be taught. The conversation went sideways when I mentioned distinguishing between fact and theory. Word choice aside, when evolution is taught in public schools, it is not couched in phrases like "probabilistic" "as far was we can tell". It is taught as 100% incontrovertible fact.
As far as special pleading, you are naive to think that the level of proof needed to get an adherent to jettison a religious belief is not higher than "as far was we can tell".
