WOTM: Extraordinary Claims, Part IV
In this final look at Low Bar Bill's dismissal of "The Sagan Standard," Bill tries to use some fancy language, talking about the "probability calculus" and the "background evidence," and how that can overcome an extraordinary claim with ordinary evidence. He also talks about the hypothesis on the evidence vs. the hypothesis on the evidence being false. I get the feeling that Bill is one of those people who is extremely (and rightly) insecure about his own intelligence. He likes using big words and showing off his fancy degrees in order to intellectually intimidate people (it's not working — shhhh! Don't tell him.). Which would not be difficult in the circles he travels.
Thanks, gang. Enjoy! I have one more for you which is almost entirely tongue in cheek. I think you'll like it. B
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I've been calling Paul "Paultine Paul for a couple years now. You know... He's a Canuckian... poutine... lol. As for William Lame Craig? Yeah... He's still my favorite Christian vegetable. LOL.
As we used to say in the military - "if you cannot impress them with your brilliance, then baffle them with your bullshit". Religious leaders have been doing this for over 2,000 years now and WLC is just another "BS Master" :-p
"Mathematologist." LOL
Can I have some ranch with Bill's word salad?
That’s exactly what it is!
I loved the way you didn't sonically redact your f-bombs!
That's what you get here on Patreon. No edit of the profanity! Bonus!!!
Poor Billy… insisting on dying from a thousand cuts… from Occam's razor.