Do you believe in evolution ?
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Castiel said this :
Was he insinuating something ?
I replied with this:
Was I insinuating something ?
You let Castiel's post fly by but jumped on mine. Quite revealing.
You're making an appeal to authority, a fallacious argument. Someone being intelligent and erudite doesn't mean they are omniscient and always correct. Did you not claim to have studied logic? You should be aware of this, it's a common fallacy.
Even if you didn't say it now (which really, you did) you've said it before on more than one occasion.
Logical fallacies are his bread and butter.
Actually I'm not making a fallacious appeal to authority. Just stating a fact that Hitchens was one of our generations most important thinkers. Can you disprove this assertion and so prove me wrong ? Google away my friend.
Where is the lie ?
Yes, its quite revealing, it reveals that you dont even remember your own posts. Castiel was responding to your post (above) that claimed that people who dont fall in line with your thinking are either dishonest or stupid (note that was the only alternatives you gave). Castiels post challenged that nonsense. It is you that is making the insinuations, hence why it was you I posed the question to.
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No need to Google if it's an assertion. Google away yourself my friend. I'd start with Bertrand Russell's teapot analogy if I was you.
No need to Google if it's an assertion. Google away yourself my friend. I'd start with Bertrand Russell's teapot analogy if I was you.
As I expected. You can not disprove Hitchens was one of our generations greatest thinkers because it's true. Go away troll.
He never claimed that Hitchens wasn't one of our generation's greatest thinkers and you know it.
You are once again digging yourself in to a deep hole.
You can't prove being one of our generations greatest thinkers makes them infallible, which is what makes the Appeal to Authority a fallacy.
And your point is what? I'm not talking about Christopher Hitchens, who was indeed an intelligent and accomplished polemist, as to being one of the most intelligent of your generation, that is highly subjective...I would point to Dannat and those like him instead if someone asked me that question.
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Or is it his strawman doing the digging?
Surely one would have to prove he was one of the greatest thinkers before asking others to disprove.
I put forward that poster # 5 in the first thread started toward after 08:00 tomorrow is one of the world's greatest thinkers and I challenge anyone to disprove that.
Isn't this the same logic the 'cretards', as people so eloquently call them, use. Assuming something is correct but there is no evidence to the contrary? Lest ye gaze at monsters ...
I put forward that poster # 5 in the first thread started toward after 08:00 tomorrow is one of the world's greatest thinkers and I challenge anyone to disprove that.
Isn't this the same logic the 'cretards', as people so eloquently call them, use. Assuming something is correct but there is no evidence to the contrary? Lest ye gaze at monsters ...
Source---> http://www.truthinscience.org.uk/ti...evolution-mainmenu-65/53-darwins-finches.html
Darwin's Finches are one of the most clear cut examples of evolution that we can observe. It's not surprising that they were a motivating force when he was formulating his theory.
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