RE: Debate: God Exists
March 15, 2017 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2017 at 12:07 am by masterofpuppets.)
(March 14, 2017 at 7:51 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(March 14, 2017 at 2:31 am)ma5t3r0fpupp3t5 Wrote: NO explanation wins by default. Your claim would only be true if we ruled out every single other possible explanation.
If you have no explanation that literally means you have no explanation. This is a classic God of the gaps example, which commits the fallacy of arguing from ignorance.
Suppose you have 4 explanations about any given phenomena. The first three have some flaw. For the fourth, there is no plausible objection. Does that mean the fourth is true? No. It only means that it is reasonable to believe the fourth it is true as a tentative working theory provided it is coherent and conforms to experience.
By "every single other possible explanation" I don't just mean all explanations we have, but every possible explanation.
It would only be reasonable to believe in 4 if we ruled out all possible explanations, not just all explanations we currently have.
"Faith is the excuse people give when they have no evidence."
- Matt Dillahunty.
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