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#35213
awhell
wrong.
5/10/2006 7:37:02 PM
#35224
McCulloch
In a really dumb sort of way, Andrew is kind of right. Science is more about disproving things than proving them. If you disprove all but one option, then that one option is provisionally correct.
BTW, Science has disproven many of the assertions made in the alleged Word of God.
5/10/2006 7:51:53 PM
#35226
shell
The existence of numbers = god is alive?
I think I can hear my brain cells dying right now.
5/10/2006 7:53:13 PM
#35229
Napoleon the Clown
Uh-huh. So science has never proven radiation to exist? The Magic Fairy Text of Obey God or Burn for Eternity did that? Right...
5/10/2006 7:56:13 PM
#35242
Gerard
Numbers are just an arbitrary agreement between people and therefore God?
That's pretty desparate.
5/10/2006 8:29:15 PM
#35246
mad dog
even if I drank 50 beers and smoked a pound of pot, I could never be this stupid
5/10/2006 8:31:57 PM
#35253
Julian
Wow - I'm glad he has that version of reality all to himself!
5/10/2006 8:34:38 PM
#35273
Crosis
This guy's attitude in a nutshell:
The Bible is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
5/10/2006 9:10:05 PM
#35283
Berny
I remember teenagers being this dumb back when I was in high school some thirty years ago. Fortunately there was no Internet on which they could post their stupidity.
More's the pity now...
5/10/2006 9:37:29 PM
#35290
David D.G.
The Scarecrow in \"The Wizard of Oz\" had better brains than this, and all he had in his head was straw.
(And, no, this does not constitute a \"straw man\" argument!)
~David D.G.
5/10/2006 9:48:29 PM
#35300
Papabear
\"I think it is important to point out that science has never proven anything.\"
Except for math, this is essentially true. Science is always open to the presentation of better evidence, so nothing is \"written in stone.\" Science tells us that if you jump off the Golden Gate bridge you will fall to your likely demise, science hasn't proven that you will fall. Why don't you go and test that, Andrew?
\"The most accurate description of our world is the Word of God.\"
That's rubbish, twaddle, hooey and bullshit, and I dare say that you know it is or else your one of the dumbest persons living.
\"Numbers themselves are a very human thing, in fact they are really something intelligent beings must agree upon...they are not a dead reality.\"
The characters we use to represent numbers are things that intelligent people agree on. Numbers of things exist no matter what you or I or anyone else is willing to agree on.
\"Therefore God himself is alive...\"
Wow! If the Fundie logic jump was an Olympic event, Andrew would be the gold medalist. My head's still spinning.
5/10/2006 10:05:24 PM
#35303
NKF
Originally posted by David D.G.
(And, no, this does not constitute a \"straw man\" argument!)
The pun... it burns!
5/10/2006 10:16:58 PM
#35308
Bob_Zimmerman
Theoretical science speculates.
Experimental science disproves.
Mathematics proves.
Each of the three has its own domain and when working together, they help us understand our reality much better than nomads who lived thousands of years ago. So while the first sentence in this post of Andrew's is correct (and so is the third, to a degree), the rest of it is absolute hogwash. Does not follow!
5/10/2006 10:25:15 PM
#35338
Nick
Turnips are green, therefore Andrew is an idiot.
5/11/2006 12:44:48 AM
#35346
The gentetically engineered clone of Gandhi
Numbers don't lie Abe
5/11/2006 1:12:34 AM
#35347
The Number Four
I'm the number five!
5/11/2006 1:12:49 AM
#35375
Maronan
I'm gonna go beat up this twit. Of course, I'll be arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Fortunately, I'm an intelligent being, and I will never agree that \"15\" is equal to anything other than \"-5.\" Not only will I go free, but I'll get to sue for wrongful imprisonment!
5/11/2006 3:38:11 AM
#35376
Jacob Syne
This is what Aristotle called \"argument from [one's] rectum\".
5/11/2006 3:38:18 AM
#35389
Hadanelith
I quote:
\"I reject your reality, and substitute my own!\"
5/11/2006 4:33:33 AM
#35409
Eskimo Miner
Argumentum ad rectum?
5/11/2006 6:31:06 AM
#35420
MJW
'Most Distorted Logic Award'?
5/11/2006 10:26:42 AM
#35429
Luffy
Hey, every one of you insulting this guy's theory, shut up. He's got pseudointellectual ellipses backing him up!
5/11/2006 1:45:16 PM
#35430
David D.G.
I second the \"Argumentum ad Rectum\" Award nomination!
~David D.G.
5/11/2006 1:52:13 PM
#35447
TDR
how baked was this guy when he came up with: \"Numbers themselves are a very human thing, in fact they are really something intelligent beings must agree upon...they are not a dead reality\"
seriously?
5/11/2006 4:03:51 PM
#35450
Mr. Pedantic
Technically, it should be \"Argumentum ab rectum\". Just cause most things are \"ad\" doesn't mean we should use it willy-nilly.
5/11/2006 4:23:00 PM
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