[meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns!

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:38:52 -0500
Message-ID: <hpgja5la8urje5fb9t1970926ff0io37li_at_4ax.com>

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:16:11 -0400, you wrote:

>Just once, I'd like to read one of these articles that doesn't include the
>grains of sand analogy.

At least they are using something similar to sound reasoning skills.

Here's an analogy for your "thought" process:

You have two books-- you read the first chapter of the first book, note that
nobody has been mysteriously murdered yet. You toss away the first book. You
read the title second book-- the word "murder" is nowhere it the title. You
toss away the second book. You decide that, therefore, there is no rational
reason to believe that any book anywhere might be a murder mystery.

The biological sciences are very, very young. And very, very little of Mars has
been explored. And yet you make the claim that "scientists are too dumb to
understand abiogenisis" as if the current state of science is the end of all
human knowledge when in fact it is barely the beginning. And that the few
tinker-toys we have sent to Mars so far (as cool as they may be) preclude that
Mars ever did support life (or Venus for that instance.) You then take those
very very, very early sets of data and reach the conclusion that there is no
other life in the universe.

You may think that is rational thinking. But it is a very long way from
rational thinking.

And THEN you make a post where you think that maybe the Chinese visited the moon
thousands of years ago?

And you praise ancient philosophers who spent their lives speculating on the
nature of reality, while calling the people on the list who want to speculate on
the nature of reality "mental masturbators", and call the conversations
"stupid"?

And you continue to construct straw men to attack for everyone who makes a
misguided attempt at reasoning with you.
Received on Thu 10 Sep 2009 11:38:52 PM PDT