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Atheists & Agnostics

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21. The authors pretends that bullshit, strawman arguments are somehow legitimate

Sat Nov 28, 2015, 10:07 PM

Nov 2015

and need to be answered in some complex way. He concedes ground to anti-science cranks that they are not entitled to.

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Spooked What do we learn about science from a controversy in physics? [View all] Warren Stupidity Nov 2015 OP

What a twit skepticscott Nov 2015 #1

That's not what his point is. Warren Stupidity Nov 2015 #2

Saying that it's "complicated" skepticscott Nov 2015 #4

This^ AlbertCat Nov 2015 #5

"A few blackened Serengei mandibles"?? AlbertCat Nov 2015 #6

But he didn't mention evolution at all muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #7

Please tell me you're being sarcastic skepticscott Nov 2015 #8

I'm perfectly serious, because I read the thing, and didn't have a kneejerk muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #9

The "proliferation of hominids" skepticscott Nov 2015 #10

No, the proliferation of hominids is not evolution muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #11

Who said it was 'news'? It's a book review in the New Yorker muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #15

It's a book review in the New Yorker AlbertCat Nov 2015 #17

And you call me 'obtuse'. AlbertCat Nov 2015 #18

I pointed it out because skepticscott had said muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #19

Yes, you are being deliberately obtuse skepticscott Nov 2015 #20

You still can't grasp the difference between talking about evolution skepticscott Nov 2015 #23

Your simple point was wrong. muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #24

The dispute between Bohr and Einstein skepticscott Nov 2015 #25

OK: muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #26

And the dividing line between species, AlbertCat Nov 2015 #13

And that's the point; you can't work out that dividing line from fossils muriel_volestrangler Nov 2015 #16

An interesting bit of philosophistry Yorktown Nov 2015 #3

Well...Science is hardly just a "social activity" Duppers Dec 2015 #27