The new Origin Of The Species! Get ready schools....

[The_vagabond7]

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:
I gave up when he started listing historical scientists who believed in God. Newton believed in alchemy! It doesn't make it true!

Why historical scientists?  I mean you could go with current scientists.

Something like 62% of natual science scientists believe in god. 

Didn't actually watch the video though.

Still doesn't matter. A whole lot of people believing in something doesn't make it true. Emperical evidence is required.

Edit: Basically he was making an appeal to authority, which is a fallacy.

It kinda does matter.  Since as you know scientists today make more sense then scientsits back then.

Claiming a need for emperical evidence is interesting considering the debate we just had a week or two back where you were for the Quantum mind theory though... considering its considerably less likely then other consiousness theories and has no emperical backing.

So if 70% of scientists believed little mustaches made them look sexy, then that makes it probable that it is objectively true that little mustaches are sexy, and they would be more correct now than a hundred years ago?

Ones "beliefs" as a scientist does not equate ones work as a scientist in trying to discover objective reality. What the majority of scientists believe does not make them right unless the majority has evidence to back up their claims. If the majority of scientists have a feeling about something that can neither be proven nor disproven as objectively true, then how they feel on a matter is irrelevant. The lay man is equally capable of making assertions based on feelings or beliefs rather than evidence, in which case I can say 80% of people working in meat packing plants believe in god and that has equal validity as a case, because both are coming the conclusions based on the same thing, a combination of culture, childhood indoctrination, emotion, and a feeling that there "has to be more".