Re: The Image of God in man
I saw no Ought. Only a prediction. My point stands.
They are, and there is intellectual importance to them. Epistemological importance, to be exact.
There is only one that I remember you being falsely accused of committing. The rest were accurate. There wasn't any debate over it, you epitomized the fallacies. You haven't "defended" against the claims, you only thought you did. You can't argue your way out of committing a fallacy, sorry.
Are you backtracking on that claim?[/quote]
Backtrack for what reason? I think you're replying to the wrong sentence. Or you're missing something.
I do not hide my meaning. It is there for you to see, but you can't be predisposed to ignore it. A more accurate way to say it is that every single word is important. You keep calling my paragraphs fluff, but they are required information, but you're unable to see how or why. I wouldn't be typing unless the words were critical to my point.
Whoever wrote that part of the bible was a bit dumb, don't you think? To think that god uses words to communicate, and that his evil archenemy would misinterpret them. You just believe all this, don't you? As you think of it, it goes right into your beliefs. No filter, just believed.
Perhaps about that much. It doesn't take long, as long as you have experience in critical thinking and epistemology, you realize it's impossible to validate any position other than "agnostic" with respect to what's written in the bible. There isn't enough information. There are additional parts which have been disproven, directly or indirectly.
You're quite good at recalling sentences and such, and you have excellent reasoning skills. The problem is that your reasoning skills are like a beached whale, there is no structure, no anchor. You reason by manipulating meaning, rather than manipulating concepts. You reason with words, rather than with the logic behind the words. It's the free-floating type of reasoning that can seem flawless, but it isn't grounded in reality. You don't understand evolution, at least the parts we discussed. For example, you think you're allowed to come up with your own hypothesis, and not even test it to believe it!
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