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Author Topic:   The Nature of Scientific Inquiry; Is Evolution Science?
Ben!
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Message 15 of 86 (195639)
03-31-2005 3:15 AM
Reply to: Message 14 by nator
03-31-2005 1:39 AM


So, are you saying that the hundreds of thousands of scientists over the last 150 years are complete dunderheads because they have never recognized that the underpinnings to their entire field of study was actually not scientific at all?
You see, no matter how you try to soften it, you are basically forced to portray these hundreds of thousands of scientists as being such knuckleheads that they didn't even know that their own theory wasn't even scientific!
What a bunch of idiots!
I'm sad to see people on this board continue to use this type of argument. This is a logical fallacy. A large number of people believing something does not make it true, false, likely to be true, likely to be false.
At least half the time on this board is spent discussing how the Bible and the God purported by Christian churches is not supportable. A whole lot more than 150,000 people believe in these things. Is truth a popularity contest?
By the way, hi schraf. Nice to write to you after reading so many of your posts. Sorry to choose this kind of post to say "hi" in, but... that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. See you around!

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Ben!
Member (Idle past 1419 days)
Posts: 1161
From: Hayward, CA
Joined: 10-14-2004


Message 23 of 86 (195826)
03-31-2005 4:38 PM
Reply to: Message 17 by nator
03-31-2005 8:22 AM


Schraf,
Sorry, I couldn't really get your point from what you wrote. But you said you're saying the same thing that JonF explained in his post, and I understood what he said well.
Thanks for the replies. I understand better now.

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