Sentences with phrase «as fallacious»

Because predictions of a cooling planet made during the 1970s — a number of researchers then believed that increases in the emission of aerosols, such as dust and smog, could put the planet on a path of sustained cooling — turned out to be wrong, climate deniers argue that the current projections could prove to be just as fallacious.

It's inferior to actually examining the papers, but it's not the same as the fallacious argument either.

A simple definition of a fallacy can sometimes be used to identify an argument as fallacious even if it is not.

We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

The conception of 100 % flood protection is just as fallacious as the idea that future damage can be prevented as long as plan approval procedures are expedited and public participation curtailed.

bear in mind that «the resurrection is false until you can prove it is true», is just as fallacious as «teh resurrection is true until you can prove it is false»

They all are branches and thereore trace back to the same origins, this is a PR line the church runs as its fallacious «argument fom authority».

He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt factuality, an atheist.)

Those are what are known as fallacious arguments because they are illogical in nature.

I believe this to be as fallacious a point of view as to look upon disease as the mere absence of health.

However, because people either fear guns or desperately want violent crimes to be reduced and see guns as their cause, they will still believe that gun control laws will actually protect them, as fallacious as that idea is.

But this is just as fallacious an argument as them being «arrogant».

Also, please look up argumentum ad populum, circular logic as a fallacious argument, and... «self - sealing» arguments.

as you are well aware «Christianities claims are false until they are proven true» is just as fallacious a statement as «Christianities statements are true until proven false».

I find atheists just as silly and dogmatic as the fundamentalists they ridicule, their arguments just as fallacious and arrogant.

Not exact matches

Okay, here goes: You are engaging in a perceptual bias, a fallacious bit of reasoning, and you have no reasonable argument as to thinking some other species» mental idiocy to be significant in any way whatsoever beyond the mere biological curiosity of their neurological problems specific to them.

Not for the communist atrocities those were caused by attempts to engineer society, based on a flawed understanding of innate human nature and a fallacious belief in humans beings as blank slates.

Sure it can fred... it can be argued that your god can not give verifiable proof of his existence and therefore it would unreasonable, illogical and fallacious to do as you do and assume the conclusion.

but to over-generalize all poor people and categorize them as you did is fallacious and not true.

It is clearly fallacious to accept the approval of the majority as evidence for a claim.

Not only that science and faith are of course not antagonistic, and that the popular opinion that «science will solve all our problems» is fallacious, but also that, from a Church and faith perspective, science and scientists must not be seen as «the adversary,» adherents of some threatening or remote activity.

As much as you're not so much offering a product, you are trying to sell your fallacious belief system and in turn recruit... silly Christian showing hypocrisAs much as you're not so much offering a product, you are trying to sell your fallacious belief system and in turn recruit... silly Christian showing hypocrisas you're not so much offering a product, you are trying to sell your fallacious belief system and in turn recruit... silly Christian showing hypocrisy!

Ok, to go along with this incredibly fallacious line of thinking, how come, as the rest of the world embraces evolution, they have also surpassed us education of just about every discipline.

Kaplan would have agreed wholeheartedly with M. Scott Peck, who contends that it is fallacious to think of God as a discrete entity that is metaphysically locatable.3 Kaplan calls this the error of reification or hypostasis — of treating a process like a thing.

It is fallacious to think that each of us is an entirely separate person; as human beings we are members one of another in the solidarity of our race.

But most people can't help themselves from adding on illogical and downright fallacious junk to these theories, and they start to sink as soon as they do.

Krauss» fallacious account of how something can come from nothing, though presented as a great breakthrough, and praised as such by Dawkins in his afterword, is largely a rehash of ideas already put forward by Hawking, Mlodinow, and some less eminent physics popularizers.

As such, religious people are forced to instead use fallacious reasoning.

But, as Eastman and Fales (1984) point out, it is fallacious to infer that because the present is sufficient for inferring the occurrence of a given past history, it explains that history.

Alas, not only do you make a fallacious argument from authority, you shoot yourself in the foot as well.

And this fallacious idea of the need to «balance» each other in destructive power has come to be regarded as self - evident to the people of America — because of what President Dwight Eisenhower in his last message to the American people called the «military - industrial complex» and what Alva Myrdal in her book The Game of Disarmament calls the «arms race within the arms race.

The conclusions he comes to are as dangerous as they are fallacious.

So your point that one person's belief in atheism is equally fallacious as another person's belief they have found the one true religion is decidedly correct.

The whole notion of our massive experience conceived as a reaction to clearly envisaged details is fallacious.

It condemned the hypocrisy and logically fallacious claim that Golden Rice opposition is a crime against humanity while turning a blind eye to the ecological havoc and thousands of farmers driven landlessness and suicide as a result of past decades of GMO commercialization of GM Soya in Argentina, BT Cotton in India and GM Corn in The Philippines.

The only thing you are doing «wrong» in my book is that you are presenting your OPINION as FACT and backing it up with fallacious data.

And the assumption by pediatric sleep researchers that there is one ideal sleeping arrangement for all, or that cosleeping is harmful and detrimental or that infants need to «consolidate their sleep as soon in life as is possible» is not only fallacious but harmful and it explains why western parents are the most exhausted, disappointed least satisfied, (yet, most educated and well read), I am convinced, than any other parents on the planet, as regards their infant's sleep.

It's not as if the advice givers are purposely passing along fallacious information, it's just that they themselves have likely been given this same terrible advice and are just trying to help a fellow mom in a similar situation.

Biology teacher Steve Stough noted that not only does ID not belong in the science curriculum, it is also «both vacuous and logically fallacious» as philosophy or religion.

Such fallacious reasoning comes up so often in my encounters with believers that I conclude it must be a product of a brain unsatisfied with doubt; as nature abhors a vacuum, so, too, does the brain abhor no explanation.

In arguments that lasted about 45 minutes in a courtroom crowded with 52 spectators, the three judges zeroed in on where stem cell derivation ends and research begins, and if the two can really be separated for legal purposes, as US policies under George W. Bush and Barack Obama have assumed — a distinction that the plaintiffs argue is fallacious.

It is fallacious to damn vitamin and mineral supplements for not making a difference and then go on to say that all dietary supplements are useless, as is common in the general press.

Break the fallacious «food pyramid» chains and enjoy delicious, satisfying foods while losing weight without dieting — simply as a natural benefit of eating right.

A List Of Fallacious Arguments The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

The older method (as practised at the University of Cape Unaware of the many fallacious assumptions used in the dating process, many people believe Carbon - 14 dating disproves the biblical timeline.

It passed off fallacious folk wisdom as legitimate research findings.

This failure is due more to ideology, political correctness, distorted priorities, and fallacious theories of education, than it is to scarce resources, as many administrators and politicians would have us believe.

While there are no bright line answers to a question with many dimensions, for most intents and purposes the above «common sense» arguments are wrong, and the Fed Model is fallacious as a tool for long - term investors.»

It was stated, «A fallacious use of the closest common ancestor analysis is to identify the ancestor as a carrier of the defective gene.

A fallacious use of the closest common ancestor analysis is to identify the ancestor as a carrier of the defective gene.