{"id":6,"date":"2005-09-09T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjhinton.net\/mjh\/wp\/uncategorized\/down-the-id-rabbit-hole\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T00:10:01","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T06:10:01","slug":"down-the-id-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/id\/down-the-id-rabbit-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the ID Rabbit Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nclass=\"mine\">This link was sent by a friend. A little heady, but lots ‘o links from here to fallacious creationist claims. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Argument from incredulity – EvoWiki<\/a><\/p>\n

There are two types of <\/p>\n

this fallacy [an appeal to ignorance], depending on whether it’s the arguer’s own incredulity:<\/p>\n

* “This is unexplainable” <\/p>\n

(meaning, of course, “I can’t explain this”). This is the argument from personal incredulity, and it contains the unwritten assumption <\/p>\n

that the speaker is a superhuman genius who should be able to understand everything unless he is missing an assumption. So the superhuman <\/p>\n

genius concludes that some assumption (God, aliens, psi, whatever) is true.<\/p>\n

* “Scientists cannot explain this” (meaning, of <\/p>\n

course, “as far as I know, science can’t explain this”). This variation contains the unwritten assumption that scientists are superhuman <\/p>\n

geniuses and should be able to understand everything unless they are missing an assumption. This undue veneration of scientists is a form <\/p>\n

of scientism, or using science as an ersatz religion. On top of that, it is simply not true in many cases – scientists do have an <\/p>\n

explanation, and the speaker just doesn’t know it.<\/p>\n

mjh’s Blog: Vox populi and mundus vult decipi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This link was sent by a friend. A little heady, but lots ‘o links from here to fallacious creationist claims. mjh Argument from incredulity – EvoWiki There are two types of this fallacy [an appeal to ignorance], depending on whether it’s the arguer’s own incredulity: * “This is unexplainable” (meaning, of course, “I can’t explain … Continue reading Down the ID Rabbit Hole<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}