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Irony Or What?
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Irony Or What?
August 21, 2009 at 3:34 am
A guy called Harry over at CFI forums posted this:

Put Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence into Google (or just click the link) and see what the very first site that comes up is!

Irony?

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RE: Irony Or What?
August 21, 2009 at 4:16 am
Carm.org here. Am I missing something?
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RE: Irony Or What?
August 21, 2009 at 4:22 am
(August 21, 2009 at 4:16 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Carm.org here. Am I missing something?

You're spoiling my thread Leo ... CARM is a "Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry "

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RE: Irony Or What?
August 21, 2009 at 5:42 am
I know,it's Matt Slick's home base. But why would that be ironic? Carm is pretty much dedicated to present that evidence so it stands to reason it ends high in the Google index for it.
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RE: Irony Or What?
August 21, 2009 at 6:57 am
(August 21, 2009 at 5:42 am)leo-rcc Wrote: I know,it's Matt Slick's home base. But why would that be ironic? Carm is pretty much dedicated to present that evidence so it stands to reason it ends high in the Google index for it.

I'd say because no theist anywhere has ever presented validatable evidence for their god (to my knowledge) and they always seem to try and slide out of the extraordinary evidence thing.

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RE: Irony Or What?
August 27, 2009 at 9:04 pm
(August 21, 2009 at 3:34 am)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: A guy called Harry over at CFI forums posted this:

Put Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence into Google (or just click the link) and see what the very first site that comes up is!

Irony?

Kyu

If what you say is:

a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning

or

the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning

or

incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result

No, I don't believe this is an irony. What the first web site is stating for Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Meaning you would need evidence to prove something existed.

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RE: Irony Or What?
August 27, 2009 at 9:42 pm
All that article is, is a wonderful exercise in special pleading. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading
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RE: Irony Or What?
August 28, 2009 at 3:47 am
Look guys ... one of the first things you get when you mention "extraordinary claims" to our theist friends is special pleading and, as Eilonnwy notes, the article (the first one found when one types "extraordinary evidence" into Google) is an exercise is special pleading (indeed, as apologetics, that is a speciality of CARM).

To my mind that is ironic (unless I have seriously misunderstood one fairly common usage of the word)!

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