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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They didn't choose to use the world 'probably'.The posters were meant to say 'there's no god', but the owners of the advertising space made them add the 'probably' or they wouldn't run the ad.
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Bob Todd whee, Wed 24 Mar 2010, 11:02,
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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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