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Author Topic:   Is Logic a Valid Science in the establishment of ID as Scientific.?
Dr Adequate
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Message 6 of 312 (436043)
11-24-2007 7:24 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Dawn Bertot
11-23-2007 11:36 PM


, it was never offered with a simple yes or no, as to wheather Logic constituted a Scientific Method.
Logic is part of the scientific method, though it is not itself a science.
The scientific method goes like this:
(1) Think of a hypothesis
(2) Find the consequences of the hypothesis
(3) Compare these consequences with reality and see if they fit.
Now, in step 2, when we find the consequences of the hypothesis, we mean the consequences which follow logically from the hypothesis.
For example, given the hypothesis that no member of the Anatidae is black, together with the information that swans are members of the Anatidae, logic tells us that the existence of a black swan would falsify the hypothesis. The observation of black swans (in Australia) then tells us that the hypothesis is false.
It in and of iteself can establish the validity of a designer or the possibility of a designer.
Logic in and of itself can tell us nothing about the real world. It can, for example, tell us that IF you are a wombat, AND IF all wombats are green, THEN you are green, but it can't tell me whether the premises are true. For that, I'd have to look at you to see if you're a wombat, and at wombats to see if they're all green.
At some point we have to observe reality, or we can draw no conclusions about it.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 8 of 312 (436143)
11-24-2007 2:52 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by Dawn Bertot
11-24-2007 2:38 PM


Re: Logic is not a science
Its included in the dictionary as a Science
Not in the Oxford English Dictionary, I just looked it up.
And not by people, such as myself, who have taught logic at university level, and who will affirm that it is a branch of mathematics, not a science.
But what the heck does it matter? Call it science (which it isn't) call it maths (which it is) or call it a seventeenth-century enamelware teapot --- it's still the same damn thing.
You may be a creationist, but that doesn't mean that you have to be wrong about everything. Logic is a branch of mathematics, but even if it wasn't, it would still be logic. Why are you arguing the toss about how we should classify it?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 14 of 312 (436156)
11-24-2007 3:18 PM
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11-24-2007 3:04 PM


Re: Logic is not a science
Nice response Paulk but as I predicted you offered no other possiblites for Spock to choose from because he chose the only logical possiblites ...
They are willing and able to communicate, but we have not noticed the manner of their communication.
For example, if we knew nothing of sign language, then we would not recognise the gestures of the dumb as communication.
If someone was unfamiliar with traffic lights, how would he recognise that green meant "go" and red meant "stop".
What this has to do with ID, I have no idea.
And speaking as someone who has taught logic, I wish I could have written the dialogue for Mr Spock, because that science fiction show has poisoned the minds of generations as to what "logic" means.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 16 of 312 (436160)
11-24-2007 3:20 PM
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11-24-2007 3:01 PM


Re: Logic is not a science
By the way, as someone with some mathematical training (and who teaches mathematics), I don't classify logic as a branch of mathematics; rather mathematics is the pure application of logic.
I should say that both of those statements are true.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 18 of 312 (436164)
11-24-2007 3:24 PM
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11-24-2007 2:38 PM


Re: Logic is not a science
AGAIN SOMEONE, SAID, 'SCIENCE IS PART OPF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, BUT NOT SCIENCE ITSELF.
Really? Who said that?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 19 of 312 (436166)
11-24-2007 3:31 PM
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11-24-2007 2:38 PM


Re: Logic is not a science
Now, narrow it down. There are only three LOGICAL possibilites as to how all things are here. (If you can think of another please let me know). They created themselves, they always exsisted or something created them.
Here is a tiger.
Did it create itself? No.
Did it always exist? No.
Did something create it? Only if you include, as a form of "creation", two tigers reproducing with variation, as in the theory of evolution.

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Message 20 of 312 (436170)
11-24-2007 3:38 PM
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11-24-2007 2:38 PM


Re: Logic is not a science
Further, someone said, "no scientific theory can be proven". Of course this depends on wheather you are going to use a dictionary. Some FACT, TRUTH OR EVIDENCE OR KNOWLEDGE once established does not need further testing at times. the truths they estabkish are an axiom. They are truthful and self-evident
Like evolution?
Oh, wait, that's not what you mean. You mean that your opinions are axiomatic, truthful, and self-evident.
Then it's kinda funny how scientists don't share them, isn't it? You'd think that things that were "self-evident" would be, y'know ... self-evident.
You can deduce logically (Science) the existence of designer, not ONLY from OBVIOUS design but from sound premises.
You can?
Well, good luck. Go for it. You'll be the first person in the history of the world to do so, and may I say how honored I am to meet you ... unless, for some reason, you are not the greatest scientific genius who has ever lived, and you turn out to be completely wrong.

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Message 25 of 312 (436338)
11-25-2007 7:51 AM
Reply to: Message 24 by Dawn Bertot
11-25-2007 1:53 AM


Re: Logic is not a science
I still don't understand why you are so determined to be wrong.
You are trying to talk up logic by claiming that it's a science, you want it to be put side by side with, for example, the theory of gravity. You are wrong.
The people arguing with you say that it is mathematics, we're saying that logic is like saying that 2 + 2 = 4. We're right.
Don't you see that we're giving an even higher value to logic than you are? That we're arguing with you because you're underestimating logic? That we say that logic is more certain than you and your stupid crappy inaccurate dictionary?
Creationism doesn't mean that you have to be wrong about everything. Logic is mathematics, not science. If you don't like that, feel free to sue reality for causing you mental trauma.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 27 of 312 (436344)
11-25-2007 8:25 AM
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11-25-2007 8:10 AM


Re: Logic is not a science
I think I will use that as a signature line for this forum--if you don't mind.
Yes, go right ahead.
---
This is something that creationists don't and can't understand. For example, consider all the endless creationist crap about how (non-avian) dinosaurs are still roaming the earth.
Clearly, this wouldn't prove them right in any way. But because it's obviously false, and because scientists say that it's wrong, they feel obliged to pretend that it's right. And I try to explain to them that just because some statement about biology is stupid and ridiculous and wrong, that doesn't make it an argument for creationism.
And they never understand.
In the same way, Dawn wishes to pretend that logic is a science. She's wrong, and she doesn't realise how being wrong doesn't help her out. She thinks that because all the experts say that she's wrong, therefore she must be arguing for creationism.
WHich is an interesting commentary on creationism, when you think about it.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 37 of 312 (436494)
11-26-2007 1:30 AM
Reply to: Message 30 by Dawn Bertot
11-25-2007 2:54 PM


Re: Logic is not a science
I here you telling me that I am wrong and that as a creationist I have to be wrong about everything.
What a strange delusion. I told you the exact opposite, as you would know if you were capable of understanding plain simple English.
Apparently you are not capable of this, and haven't understood one damn thing that I've posted.
You guys use the definitions out of the dictionary to set the standards, issue challenges ...
No I don't. Especially when the dictionary in question is inaccurate.
If you dont believe me pick up a dictionary.
I did. I picked up the Oxford English Dictionary. I looked up the word "logic". My dictionary does not agree with yours.
And as someone who has, professionally, taught logic at university level, I do not agree with your dictionary either.
Logic is not science, it's mathematics.
And as I pointed out, and as you completely failed to understand, you don't have to be wrong about everything.
Why are you pretending that logic is a science? What possible good can it do you?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 42 of 312 (436503)
11-26-2007 2:35 AM
Reply to: Message 41 by Dawn Bertot
11-26-2007 2:05 AM


Re: Logic is not a science
To Dr Adequate this one is simple to respond to. You need to go tell everybody else their idiots and you are the only one that understands everything.
Why should I tell everybody that when it isn't true?
you need to write your own dictionary.
Why should I write my own dictionary when the Oxford English Dictionary agrees with me?
I take it you dont like the definitions in the other ones because they do not suit your purposes.
As a matter of fact, I like the definition in the Oxford English Dictionary 'cos it agrees with me.
PLEASE GIVE ME A BREAK.
If by that you mean that you want me to stop pointing out how wrong you are, then no, I won't.
Logic is mathematics, not science. I've been paid $50 an hour to teach logic, I think I know what it is.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 43 of 312 (436504)
11-26-2007 2:42 AM
Reply to: Message 40 by Dawn Bertot
11-26-2007 1:56 AM


Re: Logic is not a science
To Chiropetra, is no one listening to anything that is being said?
No, m'dear, it's just you.
Here's a couple of examples.
Example #1:
Dr Adequate writes:
Logic is part of the scientific method, though it is not itself a science.
Dawn writes:
SOMEONE, SAID, 'SCIENCE IS PART OPF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, BUT NOT SCIENCE ITSELF.
Example #2:
Dr Adequate writes:
You may be a creationist, but that doesn't mean that you have to be wrong about everything.
Dawn writes:
I here you telling me that I am wrong and that as a creationist I have to be wrong about everything.
Why can't you listen to what people are saying to you?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 57 of 312 (436598)
11-26-2007 6:35 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by Dawn Bertot
11-26-2007 12:09 PM


Re: General Reply to all - suggestion for moving forward
To CK, You are correct we are going around in circles, and in a moment I will definately show you why. As I began to type my responses last evening, I though OK, I will probably recieve a few responses in the morning. I certainly did not expect to recieve one 2 minutes later, that late in the evenig. GOOD HEAVENS , what do you people do, sit around the computer 24/7 and wait for responses. Unlike yourselves, I live in the real world and am not independantly wealth as some of you appear to be, that allowas you to do that.
Well, I'm fascinated by your skillzors in TEH LOGIK!!!
From the fact that someone was online at the same time as yourself, you deduce that the people who disagree with you "sit around the computer 24/7" and hence are "independently wealthy".
Before we all get strung out like someone on crank about the Spock issue, I would like to point out that the only reason I brought it up was to demonstrate that you can establish FACTS independant of pysical properties and of course this he did using nothing but premises and valid conclusions. However, it must be pointed out his information was really use;ess to the captain. Kirk, would have been totally justified in turning and saying, "thanks Spock thats a real big help." But the BEAUTY and APPLICATION of his conclusion is the point. He established a TRUTH IN FACT WITHOUT THE USE OF A TEST TUBE OR anyother physical property.
No. He also had to know that the people he was talking about weren't communicating.
If they were, then his "logic" would have been rubbish.
Logic can tell you nothing about the real world without some facts about the real world.
Now that brings us to the point as to why we are having so much trouble here. I understand perfecly what Rationalism and Empericism are and even the definition issue, of what Science and Logic are is still not the issue here. Even though I have demonstrated numerous times now HOW Logic is a science, with many applications, even this is still not the problem. Here's the problem, you guys in the biological science community can take a simple word like FACT and give it a meaning that only applies to your standard and then imply or directly say that it has no application in any other setting of the process of establishing truth.. To demonstrate this, you use expessions like, "science isnt interested in truth"., as if truth and facts cannot be intertwined and the most certainly are, if you are willing to use an EXHAUSTIVE DEFINITON of the word Science and not you monopolized and exclusive one. If however, you are going to blindly assert that the only way to establish FACTS is by using some physical property as dirt or atoms, then we most certainly do have a problem here and we are going to continually go in circles. DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND, that on this website, you are demonstrating the very point I am making. You are establishing FACTS, now not all of the ones you bring up are valid, but some are. You are demonstrating FACTS by the use of a science called 'deductive and inductive reasoning'. This is a FACT that you are doing that, no pun intended. Wheather you want to believe it or not, FACTS can be FACTS and demonstratable as such, without the use of some physical property or a test tube. You fellas and gals have tried to create a world and definition of SCIENCE that does not allow this principle and you certainly are not warrented in doing this for all the reasons I have pointed out thus far and certainly many others as you will see as we proceed..
Now is it clear to you WHAT THE PROBLEM IS?
Yes. The problem is that you have a delusion that logic is a branch of science when it is in fact a branch of mathematics.
Also, you are incoherent and stubborn as a mule, but if you can live with that so can I.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 72 of 312 (436690)
11-27-2007 6:51 AM
Reply to: Message 65 by Dawn Bertot
11-27-2007 1:11 AM


Re: General Reply to all - suggestion for moving forward
To Dr. Inadequate. It appears now that you guys are starting to contradict yourselves.
Try not to be rude and stupid simulataneously. At least try to alternate between the two.
RAZD's definition clearly says it is SCIENCE and he atleast agrees with that much and you appear not to. Maybe you should talk to him.
Sure. RAZD, in your brave attempt to accommodate Dawn's nutty fantasies, you are misusing the word "science".
From the Oxford English Dictionary: "Science: the intellectual and practical activity ecompassing the systemeatic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural word through observation and experiment".
Logic is not, therefore, a science.
Have you been here for most of this discussion, when you make a comment like, "Logic can tell us nothing of the real world unless you have some facts about the real world".
I have been here for most of this discussion, though I don't see why this is relevant, I could tell you what logic is without having been present, since it is part of my profession to know this.
Further, your contention in the Spock situation you offered has been answered numerous times.
But not rationally and coherently.
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Dr Adequate
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Message 74 of 312 (436698)
11-27-2007 7:37 AM
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11-27-2007 7:24 AM


Re: focus on moving forward?
It seems a bit of a stretch of the word to me --- like calling a horse an "equine automobile".
Still, if Dawn will admit that at most logic is only a "science" in the sense that maths is a "science", then we shall have made some progress.

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