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selliedjoup wrote
Your position is built on the lack of evidence being evidence for your own conclusion. That you disregard the lack of evidence for any answer highlights the issue in your position.
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You have a knack for getting things backwards. It would be impressive if it wasn't so stupid.
Seriously. You don't seem to be able to get out of this idea of "I want X to be true, so I'll find all the evidence I can that points that way and only look at that". You're stuck in this rut so much that you don't seem to be able to even grasp the idea of anyone looking at things from another angle (that is to say, taking all the evidence into account and following it to a conclusion, rather than having a conclusion and finding what gets you there).
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So you don't think what evidence I would accept or be convinced by are the same thing? Don't know why.
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I know you don't get it. I've been telling you that. I'll say it again - you ignore evidence that doesn't get you to the conclusion you are after, rather than looking at all the evidence and letting it lead to a conclusion.
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I look at everything and despite a lack of evidence, the issue of everything still requires an answer.
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No. No, it doesn't.
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You will need to cite what you propose the "everything" in "everything that doesn't get you to your conclusion" actually is. I'll assume this is where you footnote a non-existent post you made sometime, somewhere in a galaxy far far away.
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No, I can't be assed looking through everything to find the countless times I or others have already told you the same thing already. Clearly that doesn't work, you'll just bury your head deeper into the sand.
Instead, I'm going to tell you a story.
This is story of Jerry.
One day, Jerry was walking in the countryside when he saw something shiny on the ground.
"wow! how lucky!" thought Jerry, "I've just found a rare ancient egyptian coin! This thing has to be worth a few hundred dollars!".
Excitedly he showed his friend, Michael.
"but Jerry," said Michael, "How could you know this is an egyptian coin? There are no egyptian markings on it."
"That doesn't mean it's not egyptian"
"in fact, there are no markings on it at all. Nothing. There is no reason to believe this is even a coin. On top of that, we live in the southern hemisphere, and there is no reason to believe that an egyptian coin would be lying around in the middle of the countryside half a world away from the country of origin"
"But there has to be an answer to what this is."
"Yes, but there is absolutely nothing here that points to it being an ancient egyptian coin"
"Oh, so you're going to base your belief on a
lack of evidence? this coin didn't just come about on it's own. There has to be an answer how it got there. So you're saying this coin just popped up out of nowhere?"
"No, I'm saying that how it got there, and what it really is are two things I don't have enough information to answer - but given it's size, the type of metal, the fact that it looks like it was fabricated on a machine and that it lacks any egyptian markings whatsoever mean that it pretty clearly doesn't look like an egyptian coin."
"Yeah, but either it's an egyptian coin or it's not, so there's at least a 50/50 chance!"
"No, because all those things I mentioned before still point to it being something other than an egyptian coin. It would be increasingly unlikely for it to be an egyptian coin with every new discovery about this piece of metal that points away from that option"
"Whatever. You keep asserting that it somehow magically just showed up one day due to your lack of evidence. It's clearly an egyptian coin and I'm going to go make my fortune off it."
Jerry then went to a rare coin dealer to sell his rare egyptian coin,only to be laughed out of the shop.