(December 31, 2017 at 2:31 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(December 31, 2017 at 1:42 am)Whateverist Wrote: Well, suppose I told you there were fairies at the bottom of my garden. Really. All you need to do is drive out to Berkeley and see them for yourself. Are you coming?
UFO's, bigfoot, gods, fairies .. I'm just not interested. An imagination is a wonderful thing, confusing that with empirical data? Not so much.
Driving 1000+ and watching a 3 and a half minute video aren't even remotely the same thing.
(December 31, 2017 at 1:43 am)shadow Wrote: There are many things to which science does present an answer that one can rely upon with a high level of certainty. Other questions, not so much. Science isn't about declaring that you always know or always don't know: it's about knowing when you know and knowing when you don't. So one wouldn't necessarily lead by saying they don't know something if they do, but perhaps on page 8 if they realize they have a knowledge deficit then they will. Does that make sense?That is discussed in the aforementioned thread.
Off the top of my head: isn't Adam and Eve a bible story? That there makes ZERO sense from a genetics front. You need more than 2 organisms to establish a population, or else it would be extremely inbred.
But what is absurd on the face of it doesn't deserve serious consideration. This is obviously aimed at a fringe target of which I am not a member.