(May 30, 2025 at 6:32 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: You can prove a negative to a rational person, but can you prove a negative to Craig when he is using his "logic"? Although he states that you can prove the negative, he does not believe his own words. As a hypocrite, he is only making these claims here to win an argument against a person he loathes (in this case, an atheist).
For example, archaeology, history, and geology have proven that most events described in the Bible have never happened; yet, Craig and his ilk still do not behave as if the negative has been proven. Instead, they believe that, for example, the Garden of Eden and Noah's flood really happened. In the case of Craig, he makes excuses, claiming that it's "mytho-history" or that it happened but in a different way that is spiritually true, which then ends up being "materially true". Thus, he believes that a historical Adam and a historical talking snake really existed. Let alone the convoluted logic he uses to "prove" that god (of the Bible) has not been disproven.
Probably the most common everyday use of the stolen concept fallacy. Where a person employs a concept in support of a claim while denying that concepts fundamental validity.
"Mytho-history", for example, is the explicit acknowledgement that the objection being argued against is true. We could translate it simply to make it apparent -
"Magic book is not mythology, it's history, because mythology is how people wrote their history."
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