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Old 02-06-2008, 10:05 AM
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A lot of atheists put their faith in logic, but isn't that a bit... illogical?

How many times have you watched CSI and, using your logic, thought, "Ah-ha! It was that Steevenson guy!" only to find out, "What? It was the victim's transexual, one-legged, homosexual bodyguard!? I didn't see that one comming!"?

And you can watch pretty much any Star Trek episode and the Vulcan's logic gets trumped by the Human concept of, "gut".

So, why do atheists put so much stock in logic?
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Old 02-06-2008, 10:07 AM
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Ahh, television, the epitome of logic and rationality.
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Old 02-06-2008, 10:16 AM
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Ahh, television, the epitome of logic and rationality.
Reality isn't much more logical.
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Old 02-06-2008, 10:20 AM
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Everything has its place, but I would say if anything, logic is used too little, and emotion too much in this world.
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Reality isn't much more logical.
It can be.
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Maybe people need a mix of logic and rhetoric. Look how the mix of Captain Kirk (rhetoric) and Mr. Spock (logic) always worked well together. They needed each other so I assume that logic needs rhetoric and rhetoric needs logic. (I hope I haven't confused anyone).
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A lot of atheists put their faith in logic, but isn't that a bit... illogical?

How many times have you watched CSI and, using your logic, thought, "Ah-ha! It was that Steevenson guy!" only to find out, "What? It was the victim's transexual, one-legged, homosexual bodyguard!? I didn't see that one comming!"?

And you can watch pretty much any Star Trek episode and the Vulcan's logic gets trumped by the Human concept of, "gut".

So, why do atheists put so much stock in logic?
There's no problem with logic. The problem is that either people are being illogical when they think they're being logical or they don't have enough information to make a reasoned choice. I suspect that when you guess the wrong person on CSI, both of those are at work.
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Maybe people need a mix of logic and rhetoric. Look how the mix of Captain Kirk (rhetoric) and Mr. Spock (logic) always worked well together. They needed each other so I assume that logic needs rhetoric and rhetoric needs logic. (I hope I haven't confused anyone).
Yeah, you definitely need both. Logic isn't the tool for every job.
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Logic is a great way to check one's hunches. The process by which one arrives at those hunches is seldom logical. But logic remains the best way to check them for veracity.
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