200 members said they believe in evolution versus 23 who do not, and the primary argument from those 200 is that those who disagree with them are "stupid" and "believe in a flat earth". Darwinists tend to be arrogant, condescending, and pretentious.
By
californiadreamin.myopenid.com
on July 08, 2007
Cite the Anthropic Principle or other irrefutable, insuperable statistics evidencing a Creator and some, or many, Darwinists will accuse you of making the "argument from incredulity."
In fact, such Darwinists posit their own Argument from Gullibility. They do not know how, nor does any scientist alive today, know how to explain countless gaps in From Nothing to Where We Are Today, but they assure you, we WILL FIND OUT.
No we won't. The origin of matter and energy and information is beyond our ken, and any scientific theory as to it is not falsifiable. Nobel Laureates have stated that since some probabilities of physical constants and abiogenesis and synthesis are absolutely impossible, we should disregard any thought of creation just because such a thought is unpleasant for them.
Profoundly unscientific and unsatisfactory.
Discussion (7)
Huh?
This is at least three claims. They should be claimed individually.
The one thing they have in common is how wrong each one of them is.
please tag: legislature, evolution, creation, statistics, nonsense.
I love the argument from incredulity, and it's so rare to see such a perfect example in the wild.
Thanks,
D'A
So you're arguing that 'we don't know, so we posit that something mystical must be happening, and any attempts to demonstrate otherwise must be lies' is better than 'we can't be fully sure, but this is what we think is happening based on the evidence we do have, and from prior trends, it seems that the new evidence we discover is slowly filling in the holes'?
Interesting approach to life. By the way, evidence shows the road ends in a cliff, but there's too many holes in it to be trustworthy.
I have recreated abiogenesis in my bathroom, and am satisfied it exists....
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
- "The Call of Cthulhu", H. P. Lovecraft
*plonk*