Posted on 10/07/2005 4:59:16 AM PDT by shuckmaster
Logic is a set of laws, not subjective appeals to authority. It's based on mathematics. Take a course and find out.
sorry - we are TIED together by our pubic hair (economically) !
So does that imply we cannot know anything about anything? Because everything's subjective?
Ah. If you can point to any you're able to convince, I'll grant you the point.
lol appeal to authority does not have anything to do with maths.
That shows how pathetic your reading comprehension is. I am a moral absolutist.
But the holocaust might not have happened right? We can't trust the historians and the accounts of people who were there. That would be an appeal to authority right?
And no non-Christians were involved at all? Fascinating.
Where were the atheists?
Hiding from persecution by the theists. I seem to remember that even the KKK (God-fearing folks that they were) went after atheists and other heathens.
Secondly, my point is that there absolute moral truths,
Such as?
and the failure of some people to follow them in no way erases the fact that absolute moral truths exist.
Hmm, seems to me that people's views about "absolute moral truths" is highly relative (*cough*) to which Holy Book they choose to follow, or which leader's interpretation they adhere to.
For example, the "absolute moral truths" of the Koran frequently clash with the "absolute moral truths" of the Bible, which also clashes with the "absolute moral truths" of the Torah, etc. It's all relative to which "absolutes" you choose to believe in.
As soon as all the religions and sects manage to agree on which versions of "absolutes" are "the" absolutes, and from where they derive, perhaps you'll have a better position from which to argue that there are actually some absolutes to be found.
For a person who knew next to nothing about the theory of evoluton this might seem like a valid criticism. But for anyone with even a shred of knowledge about the subject it is as ridiculous as "if the earth is a sphere, how come people in australia don't fall off"
Only one problem - I didnt' make claim 150.
Which laws?
not subjective appeals to authority.
Okay.
It's based on mathematics.
Which mathematics?
Take a course and find out.
Waaaaayyy ahead of you.
He didn't say that you did. Reading comprehension is your friend.
But some anti-evolutionists have. On what basis shouldn't they be allowed to teach it as an argument against evolution in schools?
Smart[sic]Citizen: That is the plain meaning of the amendment. And we know that judges nor the executive branch, nor teachers, nor school districts, nor anyone else, has the authority to make law in the United States of America. The legislative branch and ONLY the legislative branch has that authority. Care to argue further? YOu[sic] don't have a constiuttional[sic] leg to stand on.
Absolutely breathtaking. I'm going to type it again, because I'm so amazed by this. You really think that because the Constitution empowers the Congress (and only the Congress) to pass legislation, that the phrase, "Congress shall make no law" in the Amendment 1 actually means, "Only Congress shall make a law".
Admit it -- you're not really a conservative, are you? You're posting for the KGB.
It was a joke - horoscope page, get it?
"Admit it -- you're not really a conservative, are you? You're posting for the KGB."
You're wrong there, Gummlegs. He's posting from the KFC.
I doubt it. There's no evidence whatever they've even been introduced.
[SmartCitizen:] Don't you get it? Only the evidence counts. Nothing else.
[Ichneumon:] Okay, then what *does* the evidence say?
[SmartCitizen:] That depends upon the subjective observer (and there is no other type),
And the wheel goes round and round... Shall we dance?
Anyway, this is looking suspiciously like, "it doesn't matter how much evidence there is, I reserve the right to ignore it all because trying to deduce anything from it would just be pointlessly subjective anyway..."
and the quality of the evidence.
And who gets to (subjectively?) decide *that*? (and/or dismiss it...)
Look, do you actually want to learn anything from the evidence, or are you just making your excuses?
That's a gratuitous insult to bird brains everywhere.
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