Sunday, May 2, 2010

Randal Rauser is Absurd

http://www.christianpost.com/blogs/tentativeapologist/2010/04/belief-in-god-vs-belief-in-pink-unicorns-yawn-28/

Randal Rauser finds the Invisible Pink Unicorn and Flying Spaghetti Monster arguments to be boring and absurd:

“So here's the first point which will be highlighted with italics to showcase its profundity: Invisible pink unicorns and flying spaghetti monsters are absurd because they are arbitrary relative to the data sets available to all known epistemic communities. Sorry my atheist friends but a "duh" is in order here. Don't you get that?”

What these data sets are we don’t know. Rauser doesn’t find it necessary to provide data. Perhaps he knows deep down that providing data on the talking snake and the virgin birth is impossible because it doesn’t exist, similar to data for the Invisible Pink Unicorn or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Of course, we don’t have data to disprove any of those ideas so they are all equal in credibility.

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