Roy Jose Lorr wrote:
>>>>>>> The atheist's 'there is no God' is a positive assertion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No. It's the abridged version of "there is *no* evidence for any
>>>>>> gods, therefore we reject the god hypothesis".>
>>>>>> Take a stab at hypothesis testing. Rejecting a hypothesis is
>>>>>> *not* the same as accepting one. Don't come back until you have
>>>>>> tried to master this concept. Related topic: why is a verdict to
>>>>>> acquit deemed "not guilty" instead of "innocent"?
>>>>>
>>>>> Riight!
>>>>
>>>> Too much for you, eh?
>>>
>>> Nonsense is too much... period.
>>
>> Oh, applied statistics and hypothesis testing are nonsense! The
>> things I learn on Usenet!
We've been down that road before, dipshit. You've read a course synopsis.
Great! Have you read the book? By your own admission, no. Is Kuhn the
ultimate authority on reality? Definitively no.
Does anything Kuhn wrote have *anything* at all to do with this thread?
Nope. Just Hosehead throwing out red herrings and trying to divert attention
away from the fact that he doesn't know shit about hypothesis testing.
>>> I'm not the one obsessed with proving that something I believe
>>> doesn't exist, doesn't exist.
>>
>> Neither am I. Nice try, Skippy!
>
> Riight!
Go ahead and show one instance...just one...in all the years I have been
posting on Usenet...where i have tried to prove that God doesn't exist. I
won't hold my breath.
Point, Geoff. Score: Geoff 37 - Hosehead ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!
>>> No religious fanatic is more obsessed with God
>>> than the atheist.
>>
>> Even if that were true, it still wouldn't add one bit credence to
>> the "god" hypothesis. No amount of Nessie skeptics are going to make
>> a plesiosaur materialize in any Scottish loch, despite how
>> "obsessed" they are with this product of fevered imagination and
>> single-malts.
>
> And you say, your not obsessed with God?... LOL
Wow...right over your head. *whooooooooooosh*
