Thursday, August 20, 2009

For you perusal and far beyond my intellectual capacity!

Some Dawkins "arguments" easily refuted.

Part of the problem is that some of Dawk's arguments are so bad than no-one has yet bothered to publish refutations. So even obvious logical points get deleted cos they are "Original Research". For example the 747 Gambit is obvious rubbish the moment you think about conditional probabilities.
Dawkins does not explain what he means by statistically improbable. The standard probabilistic form of the argument from design is to take some feature of the universe (X) and to argue that p(XGod) >> p(XNo_God). Obviously p(GodNo_God)=0 <> "Richard Dawkins is probably among the finest evolutionary biologists of our time [hmm..????] but ... that does not preserve him from making some remarkably bad - indeed, in some cases embarrassingly bad - arguments when he steps outside the domain of his own area of expertise. To notice the badness of his arguments, however, is not the same thing as to be fully immune from their effects."

LINK: http://starcourse.blogspot.com/2006/11/some-dawkins-arguments-easily-refuted.html

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