Zardoz
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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| Quote (Russell @ Jan. 24 2006,16:37) | | Quote | | (! ) argumentum ad populum |
Quite the contrary! First, it's not an argument at all, it's an observation |
A common debating technique is the appeal to popularity. It goes like this:
Most, many, or all persons believe statement p is true. Therefore statement p is true.
Part of a debate or an "argument" is making "observations" which are meant to convince your opponent or your audience that your argument is superior.
| Quote | | If you think your own personal "feeling" of implausibility counts for something, I'm inviting you to wonder why people who have devoted a heck of a lot of time, study and research into it don't share that feeling. If, on the other hand, you contend that your own personal feeling of implausibility counts for something because a largish fraction of the (nonspecialist) population shares that feeling, I would call that an argumentum ad populum. |
I didn't make an appeal to popularity, the other person did.
| Quote | (2)Yet we do find an alternate theory to evolution
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What is that theory? (Note: "an unknown entity did an unknown thing at an unknown time" doesn't count as a theory. Nor does "I find evolution implausible, therefore it musta been God".) |
That theory is that a known entity ( I know it), did a known thing (build all life), at an unknown time (a long time ago). You may not like that as a theory, but it is a theory. I don't mind if you call it something else.
| Quote | (3)Your mind and intellect are not physical and they affect physical natural things.
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"Mind" and "intellect", like "metabolism", describe properties of my physical self. They affect physical natural things in the same sense my metabolism does. |
I disagree. What part of the brain contains thought? Is thought part of a cell? If so which part? Which part is consciousness?
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When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmm, boy. Once my friend told me that he had found Jesus. I thought to myself, "WooHoo, we're rich!" It turns out he meant something different. -Jack Handey
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