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Originally posted by stuartj
You know, you'd be more effective Doug, if you addressed the point as well as slamming the source.
Dawkins talks about Aquninas in The The God Delsuion. IIRC, you said you hadnt read it? l
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Here's what the biologist Dawkins has to say on philosophy.
We know of no irrefutable objections to its being possible that p;
Therefore
p is true.
See any problems with that? Yes, it's an invalid argument. If I went to my HR head and announced that my boss just authorized a $50,000 bonus for me. The HR head wants to know why I think so. I tell him that we know of no irrefutable objections for it to be possible that my boss did this, therefore it's true.
Time to look for another job and Dawkins shouldn't quit his day job.