Classical Theism, Philosophy, and Religion Forum / Weekly dosage of humor - This week, Standard Argument from Ignorance

**Posted by Dennis** 3/14/2016 11:39 pm

https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/comments/4afwwf/the_cosmological_argument_is_just_another/

The comments are a riot.

zyzzvya wrote:
The idea that reality needs a pusher to get it going seems to me absurd. You don't see little men with bags of leaves walking through the forest and sticking them onto trees, lengthening a branch here and there etc, plants grow of themselves, all over at once.

It seems to me the universe could easily be a similar process.

**Posted by Mysterious Brony** 3/15/2016 1:23 am

Oh man! This is so bad that I don't know how to react. Heck, I thought Dawkins and his New Atheist buddies were (and are) horrendously philosophically inept. I guess this is a new level of horribleness.

**Posted by AKG** 3/15/2016 3:20 am

Ooooh this is a fun idea. We should do this every week. I've had my own experience with gnus and their ignorance of classical theism.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/48lzcy/progressive_christianity_atheism/d0kr1jz?context=3
(But seriously are people really this dense?)

**Posted by Dennis** 3/15/2016 12:34 pm

Yes, it's a fun idea and we should do this. I will do it for sure!

AKG, what had you gotten yourself into?

Oh boy. This is pitiful. The anti-realists I'm swamped with make tons of complex arguments. This is so silly. I don't even.

**Posted by AKG** 3/15/2016 11:09 pm

@Dennis,
I don't know. I think I was was engaging with someone who realized I was more than qualified to challenge his views and he decided it was best to ignore me rather than answer my questions as they would expose how little he actually knew(not that it helped as I figured this out after 2 exchanges).

**Posted by iwpoe** 3/15/2016 11:20 pm

That happens all the time. After many years, I now consider it a mark of intellectual excellence that one prefer the pain of being corrected to hiding or deflecting.

**Posted by AKG** 3/22/2016 6:20 am

All rights, here's my contribution to this week's daily dosage of humor:
http://imgur.com/MHZLhoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13puH63HxmQ

**Posted by Dennis** 3/22/2016 2:04 pm

Oh, so he made Iron Chariots. No comment.

I like this in particular.

http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Unmoved_mover

Last edited by Dennis (3/22/2016 2:24 pm)

**Posted by Mysterious Brony** 3/22/2016 11:03 pm

Oh, oh some of my personal favorites! We theists believe in an old man in the sky who just sits there and watches all over us. We all also pray to our invisible sky daddy and behave ourselves or else we will end up below the ground.

**Posted by iwpoe** 3/22/2016 11:58 pm

Dennis wrote:
Oh, so he made Iron Chariots. No comment.

I like this in particular.

http://wiki.ironchariots.org/index.php?title=Unmoved_mover

The quote, where does the quote come from?

Edit: I am not the first person to get ruffled about the misquotation:

http://notontimsblogroundhere.blogspot.com/2015/08/iron-chariots-misquoting-prima-via.html