RollingThunder
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What was the weather like in the 3,999,999,863 years before that?
Tell us something MikeTx: how much affect to you think the weather of four billion years ago has had on the Earth's present climate? I mean, there isn't even much of the Earth's surface from back then still sitting in the sunlight. It would be nearly two billion years before the Earth's atmosphere contained significant amounts of oxygen.
Nice deflection. Indeed! My point is that seeing how you DO NOT KNOW what the climate was like past 100 or so years, let alone 4 BILLION, you lying snake oil salesmen do not know if todays weather is a normal occurrence or not!
A fine variation on the "argument from ignorance" fallacy, that, with a totally retarded lack of imagination, idiotically assumes that just because you are very ignorant and don't know much at all and understand even less, then everybody else in the world must be as ignorant and stupid as you are.
Argument from ignorance
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....Another form that this fallacy can take is the form of an argument from incredulity (also known as argument from personal belief or argument from personal conviction) which is that one's personal incredulity or credulity towards a premise is a logical reason for acceptance or rejection. This incredulity can stem from ignorance (defined as a lack of knowledge and experience) or from willful ignorance (defined as a flat out refusal to gain the knowledge).
Almost all the claims from the anti-science movement revolve around some form of personal incredulity or argument from ignorance. Proponents of the anti-science movement will usually pick some aspect of a currently accepted scientific theory and argue that it must be wrong because they do not believe it explains some aspect of the natural world. Common examples of this are such claims as "you can't prove global warming is caused by humans".
"Ignorance is ignorance; no right to believe anything can be derived from it. In other matters no sensible person will behave so irresponsibly or rest content with such feeble grounds for his opinions and for the line he takes."
—Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
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