Thread: Question for ATHIESTS

Originally Posted by Alextanium

On the odd occasion that it does 'lie' due to contaminated samples, we're well aware of the potential for contamination and can take it into account so we can give an accurate dating. These people are experts in their fields. They are smarter than you, smarter than me.

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
- Niels Bohr

The Shroud of Turin may very well be the greatest hoax that Leonardo Da Vinci ever pulled on the Church, and I applaud the man for his genius. Truly ahead of his time.

Carbon dating can be wrong sometimes, but the nice thing about science is that it's repeatable. If a result is wrong, subsequent results will show that. If many teams of different scientists each doing different tests all come to the conclusion that it's from the 1400s, then it's from the 1400s. Science pwns religion.

Good Bohr quote btw

@nerve: we have one, but we ban so many people that making it public would just become a clusterfuck.

Originally Posted by Mark75

That's just an appeal to authority.

And as such, is evidence, but not proof. It's consensual that an authority is more likely to be right, but not guaranteed to be right.

Logic can be applied to all things. IMO Logic is so darned underrated. There's nothing more beautiful than it.

Originally Posted by Kromoh

And as such, is evidence, but not proof.

It's not evidence of anything. Things believed by an intelligent person aren't inherently truer than those believed by others of lesser intelligence. That an authority believes so or asserts so has no relevance to the truth of the claim.