Hi dwise1,
My problem with the "atheists in foxholes" argument, quite apart from the fact that it simply isn't true, is that even taken at face value, it's just a bad argument in the first place.
"So you're telling me that your big argument, the one that you believe to be the most important truth in the universe, you're telling me that I'm more likely to believe that argument if I am so utterly traumatised that I become temporarily deranged? As if people become more rational when placed in mortal danger? Not quite sure that's the knockdown argument you seem to think it is buddy."
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On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
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