On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > --snip-- > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > > it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were > > 100 years ago, and there will be another 6-9B people in the next > > 45 years. > > Familiar with the theory of (I might be off on the numbers) a million > monkeys, typing on a million typewriters for a million years? Maybe with > enough people, there will be enough of us "maturing" to achieve critical > mass? Or we're all completely off and have no idea what will actually > happen. :) (I'd put my money on the latter. :)
I recently discovered a couple of great sites: http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-tradition.html http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html#antiquitatem This one sounds like "Argumentum ad antiquitatem", or the "that's the way it's always been" fallacy. Or, as they say in the Stock Market: "past performance does not predict future results" :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
