RE: What is your favourite positive argument for atheism/unbelief?
April 15, 2017 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2017 at 2:33 pm by Simon Moon.
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(April 14, 2017 at 9:44 am)Little Rik Wrote: I do not follow religions.
I instead follow logic.
The hell you do!
You wouldn't know a logical argument if it bit you in the ass.
Logical arguments are a process of creating a new statement from one or more existing statements. An argument proceeds from a set of premises to a conclusion, by means of logical implication, via a procedure called logical inference.
They follow the form:
Premise 1
P2
P3
.
.
.
Conclusion.
This is called the syllogistic form.
For the conclusion to follow logically from the premises, every premise has to be sound (they have to be demonstrably true), and the entire logical argument has to be valid (it can not be fallacious).
I have never seen anything close to that from you.
Your premises are almost always unfounded assertions based on what you want to be true. And you arguments are always fallacious.
Please, prove that you are indeed logical, and create one syllogism that will lead to one of your conclusions.
Here, I'll give you a starting point. Fill in sound premises that will lead to your conclusion:
P1
P2
P3
.
Conclusion - Too many people get fooled when they see a body and think that his-her consciousness
is dead too.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
