Talk:Slothful induction

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Hi Rational,logic loving heathens! So I was perusing religious apologetics (particularly by a muslim theologian) when I stumbled upon this line of bullshit:

"it (science) cannot prove using directly observable data that humans evolved from apelike creatures. To make such a claim would require interpretations and inductions using limited sets of data and in some ways, leap of "faith"."

While it's true that humans evolving from chimpanzee is based on induction.And that conclusions by inductive reasoning can't produce certainty (unlike deduction),it can produce a probabilty.And for cases where the premises are heavily supported by evidence,it's unreasonable to disbelieve in it due to a stupendously high probability (hence the fallacy).

Relevant articles:

On Proof: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Proof#Scientific_proof

WikiPedia on Slothful Induction : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slothful_induction

On induction & deduction: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Induction — Unsigned, by: PakiExMoose / talk / contribs 18:28, 28 March 2015‎ (UTC)

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