RE: Common Apologist Fallacies
July 8, 2011 at 4:10 am
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2011 at 4:11 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(July 7, 2011 at 1:59 pm)searchingforanswers Wrote: good thread. while i have nothing to contribute i like how you explained it easily with apologetic examples. looking forward to reading moreMy favourite is "God of the gaps" aka 'argument from incredulity' and 'argument from lack of imagination", a form of argument from ignorance.
What the persons is actually saying is; "I'm too ignorant, too unimaginative or too stupid to think of anything else ,therefore God did it".This is the most common argument used to claim a miracle.
Re miraculous cures.
Ask the believer: "Why does God hate amputees? He's never regrown an amputated limb"
LOURDES
Since 1858,when Bernadette Soubirous saw her lady,over 200 MILLION people have visited Lourdes .The Catholic Church has recognised a total of----67 cures.
In general medicine, the rate of spontaneous remission is accepted as 1:30,000 (conservatively) that equals 3.3 per 100,000 ,33 per million which is 660 in 200 million. I think that's right. Makes 67 look pretty pissy and makes God look really, really mean.
