Post by Arlon10 on Aug 16, 2018 16:23:32 GMT
I suppose a case could be made that your personal attacks on me would be considered justified "widely" or by some large number of people.
If we were deciding to build a school on this side of the lake or that side it would make sense to take a vote since that is a totally political issue. Science might have input on the various advantages and disadvantages of each side of the lake, but it would be left to the people which of those matter more to them, unless they already passed other laws on those details. Such an argumentum ad populum would not be a fallacy at all and most political decisions are made based on it.
Actual issues in science, perhaps taught in the school, are not decided by voting however. Whether the polar ice caps are melting or not is not decided by votes. Whether the agency responsible for the first assembly of life on a previously molten Earth is found in nature is not decided voting (in science anyway). To attempt to decide such things by a vote is described by some people (correctly) as an argumentum ad populum fallacy, since in those particular cases there has been a failure of logic.
To decide that my arguments here are wrong because they are not yet accepted by a large number of people could be described by some people (correctly) as an argumentum ad populum fallacy. You are very guilty of that fallacy.
You delude yourself that you are supported by science or logic. You delude yourself that you practice science or logic. You accept as fact whatever your herd does because that is how grunts work. You have been shown here each time to have failed logic. People who have never had the opportunity to examine my arguments might be more inclined to agree with you. They have other concerns that require their time and might not have considered my arguments. You have no excuse. You should know by now that I am right.
The tide turns even now as more realize that you and the current powers in the world are on the wrong course. One day my arguments will be endorsed by an authority you grunts need to follow. Only then can you get it right. Until then you will follow your herd.
Your elementary understanding things, especially science and religion, has caused your herd to stray far from actual science and religion. You are totally ignorant of the methods of logic and science you need to set you on a proper course. You continue to decide issues in science and religion by votes (fallaciously).
No one even knows what your words mean. Even you don't know what you mean by "gnostic" or "good." You appear to believe that "definitions" exist and are simple to find in dictionaries. Those are however of no use whatever because you do not understand use. You cannot agree yourselves what your words mean when it comes to some real life example, you have no standard criteria for that. You cannot say whether pizza is good by your definition of "good" for example. You are lost at sea with no where to land.
Quickly then the tide will continue to turn.
Meanwhile you are too plain stupid to distinguish what should be decided by "wide acceptance" and what should be decided by methods you cannot begin to understand.