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#399255
solomongrundy
Actually, I'm trained to use Occam's razor.
2/5/2008 5:38:04 PM
#399257
Osiris
So if a cup of water is half-full you would just assume that a magic invisible person somehow exploded the other half of the water?
2/5/2008 5:38:58 PM
#399259
TerriblyAmused
Occam's Razor, bitch.
2/5/2008 5:39:33 PM
#399267
Mister Spak
You're trained to interpret history by a process called goddiddit. You see a faucet dripping water into a glass. You don't understand how plumbing works. You jump up and down, wave your arms around while shouting GODDIDDIT!! GODDIDDIT! GODDIDDIT! GODDIDDIT! GODDIDDIT!
2/5/2008 5:48:42 PM
#399272
TB
Mister Spak wins an internet.
2/5/2008 5:52:42 PM
#399275
TerriblyAmused
@TB:
2/5/2008 5:53:35 PM
#399279
484
How much fail can you cram into one paragraph? The question has been answered!
2/5/2008 5:56:26 PM
#399284
Caustic Gnostic
[See previous comments]
The goddess Athena also thinks you're very fucking stupid, AV.
2/5/2008 6:01:46 PM
#399295
Mike
The fail! It hurts so much!
2/5/2008 6:08:05 PM
#399297
ScienceDT
That's actually an okay interpretation. But for you to substantiate the interpretation, you have to say more than "a faucet was on" - and that explanation has to be consistent with everything else we know about said faucet.
The "drip" you refer to has been observed. The "running faucet" you allude to has not. Lean towards the drip.
2/5/2008 6:09:53 PM
#399304
Fishbrains
Our way the evaporation, temperature, wear on the faucet all point to a constant drip.
His way there is no consistency, requiring a variety of other catastrophic events to account for anomalies.
2/5/2008 6:15:40 PM
#399309
Mr. Tambourine Man
Of course, you would also argue that the faucet couldn't possibly have dripped for 10 hours because someone told you that the faucet didn't exist until a minute ago, right?
2/5/2008 6:19:05 PM
#399323
caitshidhe
First prove that this "transcendent Person" exists. Definitively. Beyond the shadow of a doubt. Then, and ONLY then, can we talk. Until then, I will assume the most logical situation is true: that the faucet has been on for ten hours.
Oh, and "GODDITIT!! GODDITIT!!" doesn't count as proof.
2/5/2008 6:32:02 PM
#399324
Doctor Whom
You guys are trained to interpret history by a process called realitarianism. You see reality, and you interpret it consistently with other reality that you've seen.
I'm trained to interpret history by a process called bullshitism. I see reality, and I make up bullshit to explain it.
Is that a fair characterization?
2/5/2008 6:32:48 PM
#399329
Necronomikron
@Doctor Whom: Pretty apt description.
2/5/2008 6:40:53 PM
#399337
Paco the Droid
I wonder what would happen if this guy were shown the security camera tapes that capture how full the glass was for the last 10 hours? Probably think it was devil out to fool him.
2/5/2008 6:47:19 PM
#399360
www.evolvedrational.com
GODDIDIT!!!!!!!!!!!111one!!!eleventyone!!!!!111
2/5/2008 7:15:37 PM
#399362
approximate
I'm trained (in a half-assed way) in plumbing. If I see a dripping faucet, I first check the taps to make sure they were shut off completely. If so, I fix the goddam taps, rather than blaming some fucking poltergeist.
You Fail again, AV.
2/5/2008 7:16:10 PM
#399408
Mark
This is a shitload of fail, a SHITLOAD.
2/5/2008 7:46:57 PM
#399413
Pat McGroyne
I'm trained to interpret history by a process called catastrophism. I see a faucet dripping one drop of water per minute into a glass that has 600 drops in it, and I interpret that as, at one point, the faucet having been turned on, then off again, by a transcendent Person that doesn't exist.
FIXED
2/5/2008 7:53:14 PM
#399423
Whatever names you put to it, it doesn't count as evidence. Next?
2/5/2008 7:58:31 PM
#399432
Euclid
Then why not interpret it as the whole glass having been filled last Thursday by the Invisible Pink Unicorn tipping the contents of the Giant Space Teapot into it. Then magic gremlins dripping out of the faucet (according to a Poisson distribution with a mean rate determined by the number of instances of the letter R in Act II of Marlowe's The Jew Of Malta) each drinking a small amount of the Teapot water, leaving 600 drops as of yesterday afternoon, at which point the gremlins all died because of a virus from Venus, brought to Earth by the aliens that built the pyramids (and abducted Elvis)?
Or would you like to borrow Mr Occam's nice razor?
2/5/2008 8:03:03 PM
#399434
@ Osiris:
Well, what rational person WOULDN'T think that?!
2/5/2008 8:03:54 PM
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2/5/2008 8:06:12 PM
#399451
Don'tLookBehindYou
Ah. Vet. Again.
What's with fundies and using "-ism"
2/5/2008 8:20:24 PM
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