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Major Nikon

(36,917 posts)
23. "Evolution is a theory"
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 07:44 PM
Feb 2020

While true, frequently used by religionists in a failed attempt to equate scientific knowledge with religious belief. Inevitably followed by some sort of word salad.

The only box you have yet to check is the claim that creationism is also a "theory", which may be correct only in the purest literal sense. That doesn't mean it isn't pure unadulterated bullshit when it's used to construct a false equivalency with the Theory of Evolution. While you may or may not intend to go that far, it's still very much down the same road you are traveling.

Despite your attempts all you are really doing is just repeating the same arguments that have been well debunked in forums that extend well beyond this one. When you start describing scientific "belief" in the same context as religious belief and pretending they are the same thing, you really aren't coming up with anything remotely resembling an original argument. I've been listening to the same thing for at least the last 30 years by all sorts of people and it just never gets any better.

Your example of pointing out pseudoscience masquerading as science in order to discredit science doesn't hold much water either. At best it's a distraction from whatever point you were trying to originally make. The scientific community does not have a problem with skepticism, at least no where near the same level religious belief does. So all you are really doing is constructing another false equivalency.

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Lately, Newest Reality Feb 2020 #1
Yes, here we go again. Religious belief is no different than trust in science. Major Nikon Feb 2020 #5
Nope. Newest Reality Feb 2020 #7
Obsolecence... Newest Reality Feb 2020 #8
Are you presenting a challenge to yourself? Major Nikon Feb 2020 #24
There are two ways to post. Newest Reality Feb 2020 #26
It doesn't rub me the wrong way Major Nikon Feb 2020 #29
Thanks. Newest Reality Feb 2020 #31
Occam's razor was never a valid proof for God Cartoonist Feb 2020 #11
I didn't say it was. Newest Reality Feb 2020 #12
You're still wrong about Occam. Cartoonist Feb 2020 #13
Can you be more specific? Newest Reality Feb 2020 #14
A good way to put it: Newest Reality Feb 2020 #15
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I can see that Cartoonist Feb 2020 #17
Well, Newest Reality Feb 2020 #18
My God?????? Cartoonist Feb 2020 #19
You can't see it? Newest Reality Feb 2020 #20
Excuse me! Cartoonist Feb 2020 #21
No problem. Newest Reality Feb 2020 #22
Feynman died 32 years ago, before we could even map the CMB (2013). AtheistCrusader Feb 2020 #37
Who the fuck is positing Ockham's Razor as a "Proof" or "bulletproof assertion of actual fact" AtheistCrusader Feb 2020 #36
"Evolution is a theory" Major Nikon Feb 2020 #23
Thanks for your opinion! Newest Reality Feb 2020 #25
Speaking of arguing with yourself... Major Nikon Feb 2020 #32
Ok. Newest Reality Feb 2020 #34
Another one who doesn't understand the term "theory" VMA131Marine Feb 2020 #28
I understand it that way. Newest Reality Feb 2020 #30
Have you read Pigliucci's "Philosophy of PseudoScience"? Jim__ Feb 2020 #38
Dictionaries I can find suggest it's related to words for either 'love' or 'precious'/'pleasing' muriel_volestrangler Feb 2020 #40
Most Christians believe in some form of creationism Major Nikon Feb 2020 #2
Religion and science should be able to meld. JohnnyRingo Feb 2020 #3
At what point do you stop discarding? Major Nikon Feb 2020 #6
I have a hard time stopping JohnnyRingo Feb 2020 #33
Yes, but that's two separate things Major Nikon Feb 2020 #41
No. trotsky Feb 2020 #35
In theory, yes. In practice that rarely happens. Major Nikon Feb 2020 #42
Yeah? Well God will tend to their sorry asses when the time comes 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #4
Trump atty Jay Seculow spent most of his adult life pushing comradebillyboy Feb 2020 #9
Fire Betsy DeVos. safeinOhio Feb 2020 #10
I was taught that God created the evolutionary process greymalkin415 Feb 2020 #27
Pretty inefficient means of creation, if you ask me. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2020 #39
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. hunter Feb 2020 #43
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