Daniel Smith
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Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Dec. 07 2008,14:59) | Quote (Daniel Smith @ Dec. 07 2008,13:29) | Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Dec. 05 2008,22:52) | So.... what you're saying is... it looks like someone designed it, so therefore God designed it.
It's all complicated-like, and you can't understand how it evolved, so it didn't evolve.
Bravo.
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You're close, I've corrected it for you: Quote | So.... what you're saying is... it looks like someone with unlimited intelligence designed it, so therefore God designed it.
It's all complicated-like, and you can't no one can understand how it evolved, so it didn't evolve.
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Funny, I don't recall you making a single successful argument for your Designer With Unlimited Intelligence.
Show me one argument you've made that doesn't boil down to this. |
From that article: Quote | However, in some cases (such as that which the noted author Irving Copi describes below) where affirmative evidence could reasonably be expected to be found, but following careful unbiased examination, this evidence has still not been found, then it might become expedient, and sometimes even prudent, to infer that this might suggest (though it does not prove, deductively, it suggests inductively) that the evidence does not exist. | Quote | Irving Copi writes that:
The argumentum ad ignorantiam [fallacy] is committed whenever it is argued that a proposition is true simply on the basis that it has not been proven false, or that it is false because it has not been proven true. He adds,
A qualification should be made at this point. In some circumstances it can be safely assumed that if a certain event had occurred, evidence of it could be discovered by qualified investigators. In such circumstances it is perfectly reasonable to take the absence of proof of its occurrence despite searching, as positive evidence towards its non-occurrence. (Copi 1953)
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My argument is not one from personal incredulity, but rather one based on a lack of expected evidence.
-------------- "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance." Orville Wright
"The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question." Richard Dawkins
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