(December 30, 2015 at 5:33 am)robvalue Wrote: I put this in the religious section because it addresses an argument used incredibly frequently by some theists, and they can't seem to grasp why it isn't valid.
The "argument from ignorance" (which is just the name it happens to have, it's not meant to be an insult) is the claim that a statement is (probably) true because it can't be shown to be false. My new video below demonstrates why this argument does not work, so please, please stop using it.
http://youtu.be/BzxMXzdaxtI
I enjoyed the mountain metaphor. People often don't appreciate how impractical it is evaluate many claims especially extremely abstract, complex claims like "gods exist." There is a whole body of literature on that subject alone with over thousand of arguments back and forward.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
