(September 26, 2011 at 9:35 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Logical fallacy: appeal to popularity.
Nope, you are using terms that are defined by what is and is not popular. An ordinary belief is by definition what the majority of people believe and an extraordinary one is by definition the opposite. Don’t use those terms if the definitions of them don’t matter to you.
Quote:It's not convincing because it's not a rational argument.
Assertion, you have not demonstrated how it is not a sound argument.
Quote:No, it's not. All you've done is present an untested hypothesis at best.
A deductively sound argument is the strongest proof possible, that’s basic logic. You keep appealing to evidence which of course is based off of induction which is weaker than deduction.
Quote: This does not prove the existence of invisible angels and demons, the afterlife, the history of a demigod who walked the earth and performed miracles or any of the other mythology asserted by Christianity. We need more than conjecture to believe these extraordinary claims.
Actually it does, it proves the God of scripture exists and therefore everything else detailed in His revealed word also exist or happened.
Quote: Prove it.
Easy enough. Empiricism states that all truth claims are discerned through empirical observation. However, that claim right there cannot be discerned through empirical observation. So if empiricism is true it refutes itself and has to be false, if it is false it also has to be false so therefore it is false. It is a self refuting position.
