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Thread #150071   Message #3514932
Posted By: TheSnail
14-May-13 - 08:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion
Steve Shaw
You drank too much beer on your weekend.

That's the spirit! Don't waste time addressing the issues, go straight for the ad hominem attack.

This conversation is about certainty concerning the existence or non-existence of God.

I don't think so. You were responding to Joe saying "that's where fundamentalist Christians and militant atheists come together - in their insistence on certainty, in their insistence on their being in possession of the Truth. You certainly seem to think you are in possession of The Truth.

I know you think evolution isn't true, you poor thing

You know perfectly well that I think nothing of the sort. You have, at times, insisted on the distinction between evolution and the theory of evolution while using the two interchangeably at other times. It is unclear which you mean here. Whatever, I do not say that evolution isn't true I say that the statement "Evolution is true" is not meaningful in a scientific context. It makes no more sense than "Evolution is purple".

As I have said (and you haven't objected), your version of science corresponds to Logical Positivism, a philosophy that was discredited and abandoned, even by its advocates, forty years and more ago. It was displaced by falsifiability which you reject even though Dawkins does not.