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- From: tycchow@cayley.mit.edu (Timothy Y. Chow)
- Subject: Re: Johnson uses Argument from Personal Incredulity
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:11:37 GMT
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- In article <2B63AD4A.27409@ics.uci.edu> bvickers@valentine.ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers) writes:
- > aren't testing human ingenuity. Even if we found one
- > example that we *couldn't* explain, we should hesitate to
- > draw any grandiose conclusions from the fact of our own
- > inability.
-
- Curiously, though, when someone like Lionel Tun tries to apply this
- reasoning to the Bible instead of to biological phenomena, he is
- instantly flamed. Exercise: translate flamage against Tun into
- flamage against the argument quoted above, figure out a response,
- and translate back into a defense of Tun.
- --
- Tim Chow tycchow@math.mit.edu
- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
- 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
- only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949
-