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Video: Skeptic vs. Creationist

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Right Brain2/26/2009 5:48:26 pm PST

re: #146 zombie

Its not a position, I am noting the holes in the arguments, and he is producing the most: whenever someone uses “think” “feel” or “believe” in a question they are violating the rule of parsimony, which is what can be done with fewer assumption is done in vain with more. This rule, also known as Occam’s razor is really the foundation of science. Once again, my favorite instructive tool when I taught philosophy was “What High School do you think you went to.” The problem is a verbal tick that introduces assumptions, he does it constantly, she never does, because, ta da, she’s a scientist.

Now go back and listen to how many times he uses “think” in a question and how many times she does, ie none. She is the one presenting an argument with one assumption ie God made the universe. And to follow his belief we have to have literally hundreds of assumptions, he adds to them every time he opens his mouth. He has not been around scientists that much, his Phd. is in history.