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@secondson said
The thing I find curiously odd is how people can adopt a philosophical world view based on a theory.

Living on an archipelago, I have been able to travel around a fair bit from island to island thanks to the theory of flight. The experience has done much to broaden my world view.

Does your world view rely, in part, on the belief that airplanes cannot fly and that it's only a theory that they can?

@fmf said
Does your world view rely, in part, on the belief that airplanes cannot fly and that it's only a theory that they can?

Bizarre.
Since when is it a theory that airplanes can fly?

Evolution is based on theoretical speculation. It's not a fact. You do understand that don't you?

@secondson said
Bizarre.
Since when is it a theory that airplanes can fly?

Evolution is based on theoretical speculation. It's not a fact. You do understand that don't you?

You seem to be unaware of how the word "theory" is used in science.

@secondson said
All the while people like you and Ghost of a Duke obfuscate rebuttal by ignoring the salient points made by your opponents and focus on mundane issues and asking irrelevant questions not relative to the points of contention.

"If there's no God why do you waste your time trying to prove it?" was a silly and irrelevant question from you that was not relevant to the point of contention between you and Ghost of a Duke.

@secondson said
And to prove that you'll throw in a plethora of theoretical propositions asserting that evolution is a scientific fact. Spare me.

The thing I find curiously odd is how people can adopt a philosophical world view based on a theory. To support that philosophical world view they convince themselves that evolution has to be true, otherwise their house of cards comes tumbling ...[text shortened]... uffering to a nameless faceless force called evolution. Obtuse reasoning. Not very well thought out.

You've simply misunderstood the word 'theory' in a scientific context. It's not the same as the unsupported notion that cheese gives you nightmares.

'A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.'

(wiki).

@secondson said
All the while people like you and Ghost of a Duke obfuscate rebuttal by ignoring the salient points made by your opponents and focus on mundane issues and asking irrelevant questions not relative to the points of contention.

You view the existence of suffering a mundane issue?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You view the existence of suffering a mundane issue?

No. What I consider mundane is prattle about things off topic, like your question, which insinuates an accusation.

@secondson said
No. What I consider mundane is prattle about things off topic, like your question, which insinuates an accusation.

It was you who introduced the word 'mundane.' When I discuss issues such as suffering it is something I am posting about with genuine interest and I fail to see where mundanity comes into it.