In science, we have OCCAM'S RAZOR and science is using it to choose the simplest and best and most fit explanation, BUt in science it doesn't have, I call it, SAMURAI'S RAZOR, distinguishing scientific explanation from naturalistic to supernatural.
If we have this SAMURAI'S RAZOR, we could help our science to maintain its goal to stay always in naturalistic explanation.
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Gosh, you're not just highly intelligent but humble too! Amazing!
I think I strained my sarcasm muscle typing this.
I just got done reading through this trainwreck of a thread on IIDB. Must I be reminded?
(He ends up saying something to the effect that ToE isn't "natural" because the various species of animals can't sit down with the scientists and tell them that they evolved and what they evolved from. Or that it isn't natural because natural selection requires conscious thought from Nature that Nature isn't capable of. Or something. It's not very clear.)
Because's there's nothing more supernatural than examining actual, physical evidence over hundreds of years, testing hypotheses and discarding the ones that don't work, and coming to a conclusion one dickwad on the internet doesn't agree with.
samurai,
If you want to find out what style is better how about you come to my Dojo. FSTDT Forums.
I, for one, would love to debate you, Samurai, but I have to go take a nap now.
Samurai, go buy a fucking ditionary and look up "natural" and "supernatural". I didn't think anyone could be stupid enough to reverse the two, but you have achieved "doltic greatness". What an ultra-maroon!
Samuri, you arfe not a samuri. In order to be a samuri, you nedd to have been born of a samuri, taught by a samuri in the ways of samuriness, be able to read and write and commit suicide (sepoku) if you dishonour yourself- by lying for instance...
OCCAM'S RAZOR and science is using it to choose the simplest and best and most fit explanation
BUt in science it doesn't have, I call it, SAMURAI'S RAZOR, distinguishing scientific explanation from naturalistic to supernatural.
Let things be a simple as is plausible, but no more simple. Or, in the original: entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Let entities not be multiplied beyond necessity.) Since the supernatural is never as plausible as the natural, the supernatural is "cut away" from the explanation - the original intent of the Razor.
While I am a member of IIDB, I think I'll decline on the offer of a battle of wits; you're sorely undermatched. With almost anyone.
Oh no, he's posted his word salad here as well.
If you try to engage this life form in anything approaching constructive debate, as others have found at IIDB and elsewhere, you will discover that there are much more satisfying and less painful pastimes - such as performing root canal surgery on oneself minus anaesthetic.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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