RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
August 25, 2012 at 6:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2012 at 6:33 pm by Lion IRC.)
(August 25, 2012 at 6:20 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote:(August 25, 2012 at 5:57 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:
Jesus mythers and holocaust deniers and fake moon landing folk are interesting and quaint.
None of which are wrong because they disagree with majority opinion! They would be wrong because of bad arguments, bad evidence and bad interpretation. It's a very basic logical fallacy that isn't hard to understand that you two are gleefully committing here. If greater than 50 percent of scholars are agree on x, it does not follow at all that they are right about x!
Whats the point of having peer review if it doesnt matter how many of your peers agree with your findings?
There's no logical fallacy in observing that most scholars agree.
There's no logical fallacy in using statisics to demonstrate that smoking is almost certainly harmful to your unborn baby.
Imagine someone telling media executives that television ratings statistics were a logical fallacy in deciding when to book an advertisement.
In fact, if 99% of experts on a given subject agreed, then ignoring that fact would make YOU the person acting illogically for rejecting their expertise.