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ORIGINAL: Kirata

I see the intelligentsia are starting to pile in, ...

K.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata


~ FR ~

I see the intelligentsia are starting to pile in, so here's a twofer:

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ORIGINAL: EdBowie

That's an appeal to authority logical fallacy piled on top of your earlier strawman fallacy.

I have no idea what straw man you think you're talking about, and I doubt you do either, but I never claimed that the proposition was true. I just showed that scientists with a lot more expertise in the field than the person calling me ignorant consider it tenable. That is not an Appeal to Authority fallacy.

An appeal to authority is an argument from the fact that a person judged to be an authority affirms a proposition to the claim that the proposition is true. ~Source

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

the hypothesis of Panspermia, where earth was essentially "fertilized" by extraterrestrials.

Panspermia has nothing to do with freaking "extraterrestrials."

Panspermia ... is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets and planetoids. ~Source

Further resources.

K.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata


~ FR ~

I see the intelligentsia are starting to pile in, so here's a twofer:

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ORIGINAL: EdBowie

That's an appeal to authority logical fallacy piled on top of your earlier strawman fallacy.

I have no idea what straw man you think you're talking about, and I doubt you do either, but I never claimed that the proposition was true. I just showed that scientists with a lot more expertise in the field than the person calling me ignorant consider it tenable. That is not an Appeal to Authority fallacy.

An appeal to authority is an argument from the fact that a person judged to be an authority affirms a proposition to the claim that the proposition is true. ~Source

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

the hypothesis of Panspermia, where earth was essentially "fertilized" by extraterrestrials.

Panspermia has nothing to do with freaking "extraterrestrials."

Panspermia ... is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets and planetoids. ~Source

Further resources.

K.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

The man-crush continues...... [:D]

Step carefully there, Owner59. That homophobic gaybasher streak of yours is showing. You wouldn't want to lose you OFA gig, would you? In this economy?

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Semantics is commonly used to refer to a trivial point or distinction that revolves around mere words rather than significant issues: “To argue whether the medication killed the patient or contributed to her death is to argue over semantics.”

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: EdBowie

All I'm hearing is semantics... Whatever happened to taking personal responsibility?

That's exactly right. Semantics is the study of meaning. Now all you have to do is work on the second part.

I'll hold my breath. [:D]

K.

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ORIGINAL: EdBowie

Debate implies that there are two positions which can be stated and defended using logic and facts.

There is no debate over faith, since it can shape the parameters of its dogma in infinite ways without having to back up any of them.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

FR

I tried watching but lacked the patience for the 13-minute countdown.

I doubt it would have been worth it even if you had had the patience. Evolution/Creation debates seem invariably to descend into one side proclaiming theology as fact and the other side proclaiming theory as fact. In short, a pissing contest between priests.

Frankly, the notion that all life evolved from a single common ancestor has always struck me as likely to be no less a made up story than Genesis. If life arose once, why not more than once, in different forms in different niches? I could see all plants having a common ancestor, for example, but while natural selection works fine to explain speciation it seems increasingly inadequate when called upon to account for the phyla and kingdoms.

Superficially, these arguments appear to center on a literal interpretation of Genesis, i.e., a God who is "outside" nature "creating" the world and its creatures. But in most of the debates, evolution is just being used as a stalking horse for abiogenesis, i.e., "spontaneous generation" dressed up in a new clown suit, just like Creationism changed costumes to become "Intelligent Design."

Which brings us back to the pissing contest between priests. Meanwhile, of course, it's possible to view the universe as a manifestation of Deity, in which case there's no conflict between evolution and believing in God as the source of all life. But then, of course, the clergy couldn't have any fun.

K.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Uh, folks, I really hate to be the bearer of bad news, but some scientists believe that we could be a part of a very huge computer simulation, and there for we were created by a software publisher.

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

maybe we could re-institute the old roman games again on a bigger scale and send as many as possible to discuss our unbelief, face to face with their god. If they can find it of course

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

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ORIGINAL: Dvr22999874

LOL..................it's gonna be damned crowded if all the non-christians are all packed in there along with the politicians, judges, lawyers and bent cops !!!......................I hope nobody drops a few a-bombs or they will all be lining up to get in there at the same time.

Dude, you dont have to be christian to get to heaven, you just have to live a good life.

As for those I put in bold, the Devil already said they give sinning a bad name. They going to Centralia PA.

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Uh, folks, I really hate to be the bearer of bad news, but some scientists believe that we could be a part of a very huge computer simulation, and there for we were created by a software publisher.

.....and there are others who say we are a mutation of the bipedal species designed only to be smart enough to mine gold for the Anunnaki. For example, the bible has relatively few words about Adam & Eve but the Sumerians wrote a whole chapter with instruction to not only be fruitful and multiply (and they did hey) but near the end of which telling Adam to go south young man...go south.

What was south ? Well if you keep going almost directly south...you find what was 75,000 gold mines from which this 'brand new' huge labor force was to mine gold...for the Gods and where even today in certain yet limited areas you lose your GPS and then cell communications. This is also an area very restricted and a place where avenues are blocked, holes filled in and whose artifacts have already been 'cleaned up' by the south African govt. Geee...I wonder why.

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ORIGINAL: Tkman117

They're already here, I mean with conservatives trying to take away people's rights and keeping the minimum wage low if not get rid of it completely, sounds like an alien enslavement plot to me[:D]

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

So I guess you don't know what a codon is and can't actually defend the nonsense you were peddling. how usual....

The only thing I'm "peddling" is the fact that your dismissal of a view that differs from own as ignorant is ill-informed.

How usual....

K.