It seems apropos as it is being used in another thread, so a very stupid claim theists make is that if we can't explain something, and it seems unlikely (even though it has happened of course) that a deity must have done it.
Miracles, prophecy, intercessory prayer all do this, they usually invoke argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacies, and sometimes post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies.
Another stupid claim they make, when confronted with the fact that their claim uses a known logical fallacy, and is therefore irrational by definition, is to repeat the same irrational argument, peppering it with assertions that their argument is rational or logical. As if merely adding the words make it so?
Like people who loudly use the word fact after a claim, as that alone makes it a fact, Trump is a master at this kind of rhetoric.
Miracles, prophecy, intercessory prayer all do this, they usually invoke argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacies, and sometimes post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies.
Another stupid claim they make, when confronted with the fact that their claim uses a known logical fallacy, and is therefore irrational by definition, is to repeat the same irrational argument, peppering it with assertions that their argument is rational or logical. As if merely adding the words make it so?
Like people who loudly use the word fact after a claim, as that alone makes it a fact, Trump is a master at this kind of rhetoric.