03-14-2011, 05:54 PM
(03-14-2011, 01:10 PM)Swat Runs Train Wrote: It can be illogical without proof otherwise, say you found 3 banana peels and a pile of monkey poop next to them, common sense would say a monkey ate them right? That's the most likely conclusion.
Now say some guy comes up and says he thinks the monkey was eating it but was abducted by aliens and then they ate the remaining banana.
One could practically eliminate the second answer from any logical considerations simply because it's so unlikely and "out there".
The same applies to this current debate and also to all religions.
Common sense would say when you can't know for sure, go with the most likely/logical outcome and you will come out correct more often than not.
That's a bit of a stretch for an analogy considering the amount of knowledge we have to prove either one. Free will and Fate is like finding the eaten banana's without the monkey poop beside them. So no, i'm still going to disagree. It's not that illogical when put into perspective. How can you prove either one is right? In your analogy you could at least prove that it was monkeys. We don't have either side here, so that's a bad example.
illogical doesn't mean one or the other isn't possible as well. But I still say it's not illogical since there's no way to prove either side with evidence.