Sujet : Re: CONTRARY EVIDENCE (WASRe: Evide)nce!
De : john.harshman (at) *nospam* gmail.com (John Harshman)
Groupes : talk.originsDate : 11. Mar 2024, 17:35:37
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On 3/11/24 9:09 AM, Bob Casanova wrote:
On Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:19:19 -0700, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
<john.harshman@gmail.com>:
On 3/10/24 7:25 AM, dgb (David) wrote:
On 9 Mar 2024 at 11:41:03 GMT, "jillery" <69jpil69@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 9 Mar 2024 11:01:49 GMT, dgb (David) <david@nomail.afraid.org>
wrote:
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On 9 Mar 2024 at 10:50:47 GMT, "jillery" <69jpil69@gmail.com> wrote:
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Patterns exist
everywhere, from stars in the sky to cloud formations to rain drops on
a window,
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They do indeed!
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and most of them were created without benefit of intelligence
or purpose or plan.
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You cannot /possibly/ know that to be true!
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I acknowledge I can't know with absolute certainty it's true, just as
I can't know some intelligence didn't purposely make these patterns
appear as if they followed statistical probability.
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However, the standard is to identify evidence for a claim. Since
these patterns are consistent with unguided natural processes, that is
sufficient to support my claim. What evidence do you have the
existence of these patterns required intelligence?
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The evidence may be found here:-
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God
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No, those are arguments, not evidence. Try again.
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"This argument is evidence!"
There does seem to be a repeating pattern here. The question
is, is it malice or simply ignorance?
Never discount malicious ignorance. Or ignorant malice, for that matter.