Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
So you don't believe in science, right?

I follow the evidence. If you claim that all swans are white because you have seen thousands and thousands of white swans and not a single black swan, and I find a black swan, that is evidence that you are wrong. Science is based on falsification, not deductive reasoning.

90 posted on 01/12/2009 10:37:56 AM PST by LeGrande
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies ]


To: LeGrande

Are you going to engage the affirmative, or are you going to confine yourself to talking about double slit experiments and black swans all day?


93 posted on 01/12/2009 10:42:38 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 90 | View Replies ]

To: LeGrande
I follow the evidence. If you claim that all swans are white because you have seen thousands and thousands of white swans and not a single black swan, and I find a black swan, that is evidence that you are wrong. Science is based on falsification, not deductive reasoning.

Falsification is a subset of deductive reasoning, LG.

Further, as it applies to this discussion, again, you're attempting to build an argument from something entirely speculative. The double-slit experiment is widely open to interpretation with respect to its implications for causality, and most interested parties don't share the conclusions that you seem to think are set in stone. Sorry, but you're on shaky ground, and have no basis for pretending like you "proven" that there's no need for a creator. Even if your thesis were correct, it still wouldn't get you off the arche problem hook.

228 posted on 01/12/2009 2:02:43 PM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Nihil utile nisi quod honestum - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 90 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson