QUICK LESSON IN LOGIC

Brian Malcolm errancy@infidels.org
Thu, 8 Apr 1999 10:54:43 -0700 (00923612083, 000301be81e8$e1d2d8c0$0700640b@sttls1.wa.home.com)


STOLTZFUS
You seem to have missed the entire point.  What I quite clearly stated
is that we cannot be certain at this time and by the methods of
evaluation available to us that electrons physically exist.  The whole
point of what I wrote is that just because we don't have the means to
prove something *yet*, it DOESN'T mean we will never be able to prove it
later, as technology improves.  I know you'd like me to have said it the
way you wrote it, but I most certainly did not.

POOBAH
Jacob, the scientific method can *never* prove anything, it can only
disprove something. The best the scientific method can do is to show that
there is a high degree of correlation between a theoretical model & observed
behavior.

The fact that you don't understand this is disturbing. You say you are at
the university? Are you actually studying there?

Quite honestly, Jacob, you have shown an appalling lack of understanding of
logic, of science, of history, of textual & biblical criticism. The only
thing you seem to have been able to do is to ask questions about logic and
parrot Pascal's wager & standard apologist claims.

Unless you want to continue to be the latest poster boy for why
fundamentalist Christianity is an intellectually-stultifying worldview, you
might want to do some studying & thinking before trying to convince the
world of the certitude of your position.

B.