RE: Argumentum ad Ignorantium Fallacy
January 28, 2019 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2019 at 2:13 pm by Alan V.)
(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".
According to your linked video, an Argumentum ad Ignorantiam is "Claiming that simply because something has not yet been proven that it is not the case." It does not mean "We don't believe in X because no one can prove it." This is because when atheists make a similar argument, they are not saying "God doesn't exist because there is no proof." They are saying "I won't believe God exists if there is no proof" -- a completely reasonable position.
We have many other arguments to support the positive claim that God doesn't exist. Atheism doesn't rest on one argument alone, and each argument tackles a different aspect of the question.
