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It sounds like you're using analogies to "prove" your point, rather than using evidence to prove and analogies to illustrate. This is a very common theme in my experience with arguments in favor of an external force guiding evolution (and other unprovable subjects). If we're not careful, thinking by analogy can lead us to believing incorrectly that irrelevant attributes of the analogy actually apply to the universe.


Except I'm not arguing in favor of an external force. Tokenadult said there was no external force, I said we can't know if there is an external force.


> I said we can't know if there is an external force.

Can you know for sure you're not the Queen of England?


Depends on your definition of 'know'. There is an entire subfield of philosophy devoted to this question.




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