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Author Topic:   A proper understanding of logical fallacies will improve the quality of debate
Rahvin
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Message 80 of 344 (641103)
11-16-2011 2:18 PM
Reply to: Message 74 by mike the wiz
11-16-2011 12:55 PM


Re: Affirming the Consequent
The only things we find with information in them are designed,
False.
Blood spatter carries enough information just from the pattern it makes on a surface to allow us to determine all manner of facts like the distance the victim was from the surface, directionality, number of strikes, etc.
Blood spatter is not designed, ergo your statement is false.
Pond water carries large amounts of information that tells us things like the level of pollution, its suitability for various forms of aquatic life, etc.
Pond water is not designed, ergo your statement is false.
Rock carries significant amounts of information that allows us to determine its age, the presence or absence of water or volcanism in an area in the past, etc.
Rocks are not designed, ergo your statement is false.
The light from a star contains information that allows us to determine its chemical makeup, mass, and life cycle stage.
Stars are not designed, ergo your statement is false.
Shall I continue? Information is everywhere, and the vast majority is not from any designer.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.
- Francis Bacon
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

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