Please note the two statements you paired together are not mutually exclusive, as “was created” is passive voice, allowing any particular creator, including giant sneezing space cows. And since we don’t know how the known universe “was created”, it’s an interesting (inappropriate?) choice for showing variable certainty in knowledge, even though you’re going for fallacy of gray. I’d suggest a simpler, less controversial metaphor to introduce the idea, then extend it to the desired topic.
I’d disagree that I was going for the fallacy of gray. The fallacy of gray is replacing a two coloured world (black & white) with a 1 coloured world (gray). The post you linked to goes on to say that it is quite appropriate to point out that there is such thing as ‘less white’ and ‘more white’ - in fact, a world with millions of shades. It’s a great antidote to two-colour thinking.
Please note the two statements you paired together are not mutually exclusive, as “was created” is passive voice, allowing any particular creator, including giant sneezing space cows. And since we don’t know how the known universe “was created”, it’s an interesting (inappropriate?) choice for showing variable certainty in knowledge, even though you’re going for fallacy of gray. I’d suggest a simpler, less controversial metaphor to introduce the idea, then extend it to the desired topic.
I’d disagree that I was going for the fallacy of gray. The fallacy of gray is replacing a two coloured world (black & white) with a 1 coloured world (gray). The post you linked to goes on to say that it is quite appropriate to point out that there is such thing as ‘less white’ and ‘more white’ - in fact, a world with millions of shades. It’s a great antidote to two-colour thinking.
I didn’t mean you were committing the fallacy, I meant you were similarly trying to point it out (“going for this kind of article and explanation”).
Ah. In that case, your comment makes a lot of sense. I apologise for the confusion.