(January 27, 2019 at 5:36 am)bennyboy Wrote:(January 27, 2019 at 3:27 am)Agnostico Wrote: Atheism rests on Argumentum ad Ignorantium also known as Appeal to Ignorance fallacy...
Eg... "We don't believe there are Gods cos no one can prove it".
Enjoy...
You got it wrong. Appeal to ignorance is the attempt to use lack of knowledge to PROVE something is true.
Refusing to believe an assertion because the person cannot prove their assertion isn't an appeal to ignorance. It's just good common sense.
^^^^^^ No kidding. How many spend time trying to debunk claims of the tooth fairy? The problem with "prove it isn't true", for that to work, then that means all claims are equally true by default, and nobody in reality does that. Not all claims are equally true by default. That is why in good logic, and even in scientific method, it is up to the claimant to prove what they claim.
I also refuse to blindly swallow claims of Apollo or Yoda for that matter.
