Gumby #fundie

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Just so you know, I've spoken to biologists and evolutionary scientists in both Europe and Australia and NONE of them could explain to me the points I and Aysia just raised, they just say 'Oh, that field of research hasn't been fully explored yet.' Shitheads, if something hasn't been fully explored or explained, you can't declare it to be true!!!

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Quantum Mechanic++

Classic of pseudoscientists: "More research is needed...", God of the gaps, etc.

Then it's unlikely that an expert would spend much time with Gumby when detecting that the purpose is the imposition of false a-priori premises.

Another classic:
The creationist method: Here are "the facts" (a conclusion interpreting the origin myths of an old book, like the Bible). What can we find that confirms it? (confirmation bias fallacy).
The scientific method: Here are the facts (observations of the natural world). What conclusions can we derive from them? How can we verify and test that these conclusions are valid? How can we improve our method to make more discoveries? (observation, hypotheses, scientific theories, replication, double-blind experiments, etc.)

“Just so you know, I've spoken to biologists and evolutionary scientists in both Europe and Australia and NONE of them could explain to me the points I and Aysia just raised, they just say 'Oh, that field of research hasn't been fully explored yet.'”
So, you’re asking questions that science cannot currently answer?
Or you’re asking questions everyone’s too polite to tell you how dumb they are?

“Shitheads, if something hasn't been fully explored or explained, you can't declare it to be true!!!”
Um, yes, yes we can.
Watch a murder mystery.
We can declare that Mr. Body is dead long before we know who had means, motive, and opportunity to do the deed, much less indict them.
Mr. Body is Dead is a fact.
‘Mr. Body was found in the Kitchen’ is also a fact.
Mr. Body was killed by a blunt instrument is also a fact.
Mr. Body was moved from where he was killed, a fact that’ll take time to establish.
Eventually they can say ‘It is a fact that Mr. Body was killed in the Library, and this is how we know…’
And eventually they go to court and convince a Jury that ‘Mrs. Peacock did it in the Library with the pipe wrench’ is a fact.

Everything in science is a theory trying to explain the facts we’ve collected. Your question is either NOT about facts, or it’s about facts we cannot explain…yet.
But we don’t have to answer that to say that the murder is a fact. I mean, that evolution is a fact.

Gumby #fundie acne.org

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