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Argument From Ignorance
January 8, 2011 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2011 at 2:42 pm by FadingW.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XEgkViLbTk#t=1m46s
I don't understand tides, therefore God must exist.
F***ing gravity, how does it work?
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 8, 2011 at 9:59 pm
FadingW Wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XEgkViLbTk#t=1m46s
I don't understand tides, therefore God must exist.
F***ing gravity, how does it work?
I don't understand how the brain works therefore i do not think. 
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Where did he get his '80% of Americans are Christian'?
The last survey I saw said that 60% of Americans claimed to be Christian, 40% claimed to go to church but only 20% actually do go to church (measured by church door survey). IF some of those 20% are not really Christians, as claimed in this video, how many Christians are there really in America? 10%? That would tie in fairly well with the normal spread of IQ in a population.
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Why are we so focused on that piece of self absorbed, self satisfied piece of shit?
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 3:40 pm
This is the Statler-Waldorf school of religious thought.
"You can't account for X. I can. God(Verb)It. I win. Don't try to explain with all that sciency stuff. I'm not listening. Lalalalalalalalala"
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 7:16 pm
Bill probably thought he won that argument too, he never admits defeat.
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 7:33 pm
Does that guy know anything? No one can explain how the tides come in and out huh? I can, it's called....the fucking moon! The moons gravitational pull on the earth pulls the oceans. The sun also plays a role.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 7:46 pm
(January 20, 2012 at 7:33 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Does that guy know anything? No one can explain how the tides come in and out huh? I can, it's called....the fucking moon! The moons gravitational pull on the earth pulls the oceans. The sun also plays a role.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
I find that idiots like O'Reilly who cling to faith and argue from ignorance more often than not only dismiss science because they know nothing about it.
It's infuriating.
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 8:26 pm
(January 20, 2012 at 7:33 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Does that guy know anything? No one can explain how the tides come in and out huh? I can, it's called....the fucking moon! The moons gravitational pull on the earth pulls the oceans. The sun also plays a role.
http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/
His response, (paraphrase) "Um, yeah, I knew that! But how did the moon get there, smart guy? Huh, huh?"
To the best of my knowledge, no one has told him that the moon "got there" when a large asteroid collided with the then molten earth, creating first a ring and then this ring coalesced into what is now the moon. This was an important development for life on earth for a number reasons, not just for the tidal movements. The collision brought some of the iron to the surface, allowing for the manufacture of tools. It's relationship stabilized the earth's rotation, preventing the earth from wildly shifting on it's axis.
Presumably O'Riley would have countered, "Yeah, I knew that. But how did the asteroid collide with the earth?"
Is this continued regression ad infinitum a logical fallacy of some kind?
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RE: Argument From Ignorance
January 20, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Some people shouldn't be allowed to read. That man's life would have been much simpler if his range of knowledge was kept to hygienic items, food stuffs, clothing and utensils. Boom. Yes, Mr. Reilly, god made clothes, food, hygiene and utensils. Now, go back to bed before you hurt yourself.
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