UNGODLY THINKERS LOSE THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ASSUMPTION AND OBSERVATION.

(quote from RealReality.org/Real_Faith_and_Reason_Vol_2_-_Scientia.pdf)

“Then, by the way, the fundamental thing that we disagree on, Mr. Ham, is this nature of what you can prove to yourself. This is to say, when people make assumptions based on radiometric dating, when they make assumptions about the expanding universe, when they make assumptions about the rate at which genes change in populations of bacteria in laboratory growth media, they’re making assumptions based on previous experience. They’re not coming out of whole cloth.” ~ Bill Nye

“assumptions about the rate at which genes change in populations of bacteria in laboratory growth media”

Why would we need to assume this rate? We can test and observe the rate at which genes change in populations of bacteria, but we can’t test assumptions. When Bill makes a statement like this one, we can see that he’s confused about the nature of assumptions. Specifically, he lost the contrast between assumption and observation. Could it be that he no longer knows the difference? Or is he doing whatever it takes to “win” an argument even if it takes crafty flimflam? We’re not picking on Bill since we’re probably all guilty of flimflam sometimes because the fallen fleshly nature likes to “win” and hates to “lose.” Again, we can’t look into Bill’s mind to see why he made these claims, but we can see that he wasn’t speaking rationally.

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