Right, but on the spot it's like when O'Reilly said "Tide comes in, tide goes out, never a miscommunication: You can't explain that." and Silverman kind of stumbled to find a response because he was so dumbfounded by the idiocy he just heard.Volenta wrote:Well, it's not that hard to point out that because we evolved a particular way, we can't know something to be healthy. You actually have to study that through the use of science, and Dillahunty should know that. He's essentially rejecting science because it doesn't seem to fit with an intuition he already has.brimstoneSalad wrote:I don't know if I would have been able to reply out of shock.
I don't know if you've been in these situations, but these things happen and it's like a divide by zero error, your brain has to reboot to comprehend the sheer magnitude of wrong in what you just heard.
Maybe we should write an open letter to him?
http://theveganatheist.com/forum/viewto ... f=22&t=579
Highest degree of relevance to the largest number of people.Volenta wrote: Oh, I really didn't know. You're regularly citing articles and government stuff from the USA and things like that, so I made a wrong assumption there.
Most countries, for better of worse, have modeled their criminal law system of the U.S., which is in part modeled on British common law before that.