Do you believe in God?

[pininsho]

I’ve asked the question on how critical thinking would help me to determine the distance from here to Proxima Centauri. So far all you critical thinkers have failed to answer the question.

 

I'm still waiting for you to address my points but a quick answer to your question is that it wouldn't. It would enable you to understand the mechanisms that are undertaken to give you the distance for you to be able to form a judgement about the likelihood of whether the answer is correct or not.

[pininsho]

How would reason or logic help me to determine the distance from here to Proxima Centauri?

 

See my last post.

I'm still waiting for a response to my previous points.

[MrSmith]

I'm still waiting for you to address my points but a quick answer to your question is that it wouldn't. It would enable you to understand the mechanisms that are undertaken to give you the distance for you to be able to form a judgement about the likelihood of whether the answer is correct or not.

 

I’ve addressed all your points to the best of my abilities, I’m still not sure on how critical thinking and logic would help me decide that someone else’s work is accurate.

[JFKvsNixon]

How would critical thinking help me determine the distance from here to Proxima Centauri?

 

What would you do if you found two books that made two different claims of the distance?

[JFKvsNixon]

I’ve addressed all your points to the best of my abilities, I’m still not sure on how critical thinking and logic would help me decide that someone else’s work is accurate.

 

Because if the authors works was any good, they would explain how they came to their answer, allowing you to critique it and decide how trustworthy their claim would be.

 

Surely you do this lots of times every day, you cannot accept any every statement given to you as being true?

[pininsho]

I’ve addressed all your points to the best of my abilities, I’m still not sure on how critical thinking and logic would help me decide that someone else’s work is accurate.

 

You still haven't explained to me that you fully understand my points here.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8841098#post8841098

Plus I've yet to read your comments on this link.

http://atheism.about.com/od/criticalthinking/a/criticalthink.htm

[MrSmith]

What would you do if you found two books that made two different claims of the distance?

 

I'd probably keep looking to see how many sources of information agreed with each answer, and then probably pick the one that the majority agreed with. What would you do?

[MrSmith]

Because if the authors works was any good, they would explain how they came to their answer, allowing you to critique it and decide how trustworthy their claim would be.

 

Surely you do this lots of times every day, you cannot accept any every statement given to you as being true?

 

I wouldn't understand the calculations so I would be able to critique it.

[MrSmith]

You still haven't explained to me that you fully understand my points here.

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?p=8841098#post8841098

Plus I've yet to read your comments on this link.

http://atheism.about.com/od/criticalthinking/a/criticalthink.htm

 

I think I understand your points and I’m sure I’ve answered them. Maybe I’m missing something but I can’t see what it is.

 

It didn't really help me to understand how I can know whether a statement is true that is made by a physicist whom is substantially smarty than me.

[pininsho]

I'd probably keep looking to see how many sources of information agreed with each answer, and then probably pick the one that the majority agreed with. What would you do?

 

http://atheism.about.com/od/logicalfallacies/a/numbers.htm