My Preference Challenge

[AV1611VET]

???

EVERYBODY here talks about things that can be evidenced AND things that cannot. So your "lets say..." premise is bunk.

Again, please read my OP.

In the spirit of my movie file, I shall assist you -- with emphasis:

How do you get educated people, who wouldn't NORMALLY say anything that hasn't been run through the scientific method and back,

 

[durangodawood]

Again, please read my OP.

In the spirit of my movie file, I shall assist you -- with emphasis:

When discussing religions, fiction, art, etc, ALL these people WILL NORMALLY talk about products of the imagination.

 

[AV1611VET]

When discussing religions, fiction, art, etc, ALL these people WILL NORMALLY talk about products of the imagination.

Again, from my OP -- with emphasis:

How do you get educated people, who wouldn't normally say anything that hasn't been run through the scientific method and back,

The ones who, as you put it, WILL NORMALLY, can take a hike.

This isn't about them.

 

[durangodawood]

Again, from my OP -- with emphasis:

The ones who, as you put it, WILL NORMALLY, can take a hike.

This isn't about them.

The ones you ask about dont exist.

Everybody talks about Harry Potter, Santa, Poseidon, etc.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Again, from my OP -- with emphasis:

The ones who, as you put it, WILL NORMALLY, can take a hike.

This isn't about them.

When you bring up the subject of fiction, people will discuss fiction -- even those who WOULDN'T NORMALLY discuss fiction.

How much simpler do you need it to be, AV?

 

[essentialsaltes]

How do you get educated people, who wouldn't normally say anything that hasn't been run through the scientific method and back, to seriously bring up: Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, the tooth (and other) fairies, Allah, the FSM...?

Hint: All you have to do is mention...

...something else that is as equally unsupported by evidence as those other silly things.

 

[Kylie]

How do you get educated people, who wouldn't normally say anything that hasn't been run through the scientific method and back, to seriously bring up: Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, the tooth (and other) fairies, Allah, the FSM, superscriptions on belt buckles, Saturnalia, Thor→Thursday, and other such nonsense; while AT THE SAME TIME, wanting to discuss SN1987A, dendrochronology, ice core sampling, cratering, radiometric dating, string theory, M-theory, the CMB, and other such nonsense?

Hint: All you have to do is mention _____?

Things that have evidence to support them and things that lack evidence.

Oh, and I am talking about evidence from the real world. I'm sure you will tell me that the real world can take a hike whenever it's convenient for you...

 

[AV1611VET]

If a person standing next to you mentions that they believe in a God I become slightly frightened,
because you are standing next to someone who is irrational and a person who is irrational is liable to do anything,
given the chance I normally move away.

Hi, consol ...

 

[Kylie]

What's consol?

 

[AV1611VET]

What's consol?

1

 

[Strathos]

What's consol?

A poster known for making many dupe accounts after being banned

 

[Kylie]

Ah, thanks.

 

[Davian]

How do you get educated people, who wouldn't normally say anything that hasn't been run through the scientific method and back, to seriously bring up: Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, the tooth (and other) fairies, Allah, the FSM, superscriptions on belt buckles, Saturnalia, Thor→Thursday, and other such nonsense; while AT THE SAME TIME, wanting to discuss SN1987A, dendrochronology, ice core sampling, cratering, radiometric dating, string theory, M-theory, the CMB, and other such nonsense?

Hint: All you have to do is mention _____?

You may think everything discussed here is, as you say, "nonsense", but can they not all be discussed seriously at some level?

Seriously, in a fight between Batman and Superman, who would win?

 

[PsychoSarah]

You may think everything discussed here is, as you say, "nonsense", but can they not all be discussed seriously at some level?

Seriously, in a fight between Batman and Superman, who would win?

If the fight was for real, to the death, batman would die. Kryptonite has to be close to superman to affect him, and he could just kill batman with lazer eyes from a distance.

 

[Davian]

I agree.

I was going to add that it works the other way around as well.

How do you get a Christian, who walks by faith and not by sight, to suddenly start yakking science?

Tell him the Flood was local.

But I didn't want to derail my own thread.

That's why I call these things "challenges" ... the challenge is to get an accurate and honest answer, without having to wade through a bunch of venting and ridicule.

Is that not the purpose of these threads, for you to vent and ridicule?

 

[Davian]

If the fight was for real, to the death, batman would die. Kryptonite has to be close to superman to affect him, and he could just kill batman with lazer eyes from a distance.

Given time to prepare, Batman would have some sort of defence for that.

 

[selfinflikted]

You may think everything discussed here is, as you say, "nonsense", but can they not all be discussed seriously at some level?

Seriously, in a fight between Batman and Superman, who would win?

Superman.

 

[PsychoSarah]

Given time to prepare, Batman would have some sort of defence for that.

Superman has super speed, batman wouldn't have the time.

 

[Davian]

Superman has super speed, batman wouldn't have the time.

<spoilers>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQYmDcNCGKs

 

[TLK Valentine]

If the fight was for real, to the death, batman would die. Kryptonite has to be close to superman to affect him, and he could just kill batman with lazer eyes from a distance.

True, but remember that Superman relies far too much on his strength and invulnerability -- why else did he try to go toe-to-toe with Doomsday?

Batman, OTOH, is a master of psychological manipulation -- it would be far too easy to lure Superman into an up-close-and-personal confrontation (Four words: Lois Lane in peril) and then administer a Kryptonite smackdown.