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To: Ichneumon

No, this is your brain on common sense. Non-christians don't believe the tripe either. Guess they're creationists by fiatt?


294 posted on 02/13/2006 2:51:44 AM PST by Havoc (Evolutionists and Democrats: "We aren't getting our message out" (coincidence?))
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To: Havoc
No, this is your brain on common sense.

Keep telling yourself that if it helps you feel better.

296 posted on 02/13/2006 3:02:42 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Havoc; Ichneumon
Non-christians don't believe the tripe either. Guess they're creationists by fiatt?

Other religious creeds hold that the universe is divinely created. Creationism is in no way owned by Christianity. Your comment is thus meaningless.

No, this is your brain on common sense.

In my observation, "common sense" is more often than not at best cultural tradition (or "received wisdom") rather than anything approaching independently acheived products of uncomplicated rationality or thought. Often enough, "common sense" is actually rather stupid.
Cases in point:
1. "It is just COMMON SENSE that more guns lead to more gun violence"
2. "It is just COMMON SENSE that young teens will engage in sexual experimentation no matter how much adults discourage it. So it is just COMMON SENSE to regale schoolchildren with explicit sexual material and distribute condoms to them."
3. "Just as God created Man to be sovereign over the Earth and all its creatures, so is it COMMON SENSE that God established certain men and/or families to be Lords over other men, sovereign over them, with all power over them." ("Divine Right of Kings")
4. "It is only COMMON SENSE that, if American society were truly ethnically "blind", all results would be statistically uniform acros all demographics. Since the results are not uniform, it is COMMON SENSE that America is still endemically and institutionally racist."
5. "It is only COMMON SENSE that cutting taxes only favors 'the Rich' and oppreses 'the poor', and it is only COMMON SENSE that raising taxes will increase tax revenues, and it is just plain COMMON SENSE that income-scaled taxation is 'progressive' and 'fair' - 'the Rich' must 'pay their fair share' yanno..."

Shall I continue -as I could, at great length- or will you cede the point that calling a notion "common sense" does not amount to a compelling argument in its favor?

300 posted on 02/13/2006 3:20:25 AM PST by King Prout (many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
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