Re: Creationist discovers the missing link revealing the first true



On Dec 5, 6:07 pm, Ernest Major <{$t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message
<46c1fa0c-aa50-40bf-80ab-1793d74d9...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
George <gburk...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Now this statement by one of you I accept, it is true and honest! As a
Biblical creationist I may not agree with what you say but I will
defend to the death your right to say it.  BUT, If you have a number of
competing theories then you have no conclusive definitive demonstrable
fact and everyone else has the same right to believe and say what their
theory is.

That boils down to a claim that if we don't know everything then we
don't know anything. That is pretty much epistemological nihilism.

May I refer you to Isaac Asimov's essay "The Relativity of Wrong".

That should be required reading for all people who want to understand
how science works.

.



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