Amazing displays of ignoranceSandettie Light Vessel Automatic tells us: "My dad's friend told us there's no such thing as gravity - it's just the weight of air holding us down". Tell us of times you've been floored by abject stupidity. "Whenever I read the Daily Express" is not a valid answer.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 18 Mar 2010, 16:48)
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Not quite.At least in the UK, there was a risk that a claim along the lines of "There's no god" would allow fundies to go to the ASA to insist that evidence could be produced. The fundies would've been on a hiding to nothing - except that they'd create faff and be more trouble than they're worth.
"Probably" was added to make the claim an expression of opinion - comparable to the "Probably" in the Carlsberg ads.
At least, that's what I think happened.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 12:13,
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This is pretty much what they said at the book launch for 'The Atheists Guide to Christmas'.(
Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 12:43,
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I thought it was just because"Probably..." trips off the tongue better than "Current evidence and logic suggests..." - the main point being that, whilst the fundies will take another lungful of blind faith to proclaim that there is definitely a god, no question about it, nosiree, a scientist can only go on the evidence available.
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