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  1. Zosimus

    Begging the Question

    Critical Reasoning 101 Welcome to Zosimus’ critical reasoning primer. Since you don’t seem to have the slightest clue about logic and since I am a critical reasoning teacher, I figured I would write this little post to try to help you get a clue of some sort. Let’s imagine that you’re going to...
  2. Zosimus

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    I bet their is. You don't even know what the topic of the discussion is.
  3. Zosimus

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    I will defer to your expertise in the area of loose.
  4. Zosimus

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    I will not bother to address all of your stupidity. I will merely address the point you made in the last sentence, in which you said "No assumption here." I refer you to An Essay on Radiometric Dating You will note that this is no kind of Christian website. I will content myself with...
  5. Zosimus

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    Are you trying to win an award for the number of errors you can squeeze into one sentence? First of all, it's not unpolite but impolite. Second, the idiom is not only x but also y. Third, you cannot join two complete sentences together with just a comma. Finally, what's wrong with just using...
  6. Zosimus

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    This is hands down the stupidest argument I've seen in a long time. You should be completely ashamed of yourself for making it. You did not understand the point of my original post in the slightest.
  7. Zosimus

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    Logical arguments are not based on one’s senses. They are based on rational thought. For example, let’s suppose that I wonder whether truth exists. If I postulate that truth exists, then Q.E.D. But what if I postulate that truth does not exist? Then I am claiming that the phrase “truth does not...
  8. Zosimus

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    No, what I said was that science typically looks at something and figures, “Since the half-life of C14 is x, and since we see y daughter product, we can calculate that the radioactive decay of this object has been ongoing for 20,000 years.” Yet surely you can see that this calculation flies in...
  9. Zosimus

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    I’m not familiar with the “existence thread.” Perhaps you could link me to it?
  10. Zosimus

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    Occam’s Razor, you said? After William of Ockham (Occam in Latin) who famously said, “For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.” Interesting. How's...
  11. Zosimus

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    My point is quite simply that YEC relies on a number of questionable assumptions. Nevertheless, neo-Darwinism does too. There is no reason to prefer one over the other.
  12. Zosimus

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    Evidence? No, I don't care about evidence. Logic and logical arguments? Of course I care about these things. That's why I'm here. I want to know why you don't care about logic or logical arguments. This follows from... what, exactly? Anyone who has seen an optical illusion should know that his...
  13. Zosimus

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    Can I just interject and ask you why you believe that it's acceptable to beat your wife? If your reasons are rationalist as opposed to empirical, then that's where the discussion begins. So why do you believe that it's acceptable to beat your wife?
  14. Zosimus

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    Commenting on the poor logic employed has nothing to do with evidence. The strongest evidence is pointless if it is plugged into a faulty logical argument. First of all, you have no idea what I believe. You are assuming that I must be a YEC. I'm not. I was commenting on the hideously bad...
  15. Zosimus

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    Evidence is not a rational reason. I think you are very confused about the difference between rationalism and empiricism.
  16. Zosimus

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    I'm not engaging in any logical fallacies because I'm not drawing any conclusions. I'm simply commenting on the logic commonly employed in this forum.
  17. Zosimus

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    It is irrational to demand evidence from others while exempting yourself from the same requirement.
  18. Zosimus

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    So, just to be clear, you have no evidence that supports the claim that evidence is or should be required to believe in something? P.S. I never made any claim about YEC. I simply criticized the faulty logic employed by many while attempting to refute a belief system that is not open to...
  19. Zosimus

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    Whereas I am waiting for YOU to provide evidence that supports the idea that evidence is necessary to believe something. You seem enamored with the idea of evidence, but where's the evidence for evidence?
  20. Zosimus

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    You said: “Presupposing the conclusion to be true is ‘assuming the consequent’.” That’s weird. Google can’t find any hits for the phrase “assuming the consequent.” What should I conclude from that? You said: “it seems to suggest that neo-Darwinism is a form of theology…” I could have sworn...
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