RE: Bible contradictions?
March 12, 2012 at 8:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2012 at 8:11 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Oh for suck sake,you REALLY don't have clue, do you. Perhaps have a go at grasping the rudiments of critical thinking,then you might not come across as such a drongo.
I am not being unkind: Your two sentences contain four logical fallacies
Quote:For thousands of years of human history it had been apparent there is a God.
Argument from antiquity;being believed for a long time does not make a thing true. The existence of god(s) is not self evident,that is an argument from incredulity (aka 'god of the gaps) IE "I am too ignorant,too lacking in imagination or too stupid to think of anything else,therefore god did it"
Quote: It is up to atheists to prove that billions of people's presuppositions have been wrong.
Argument from consensus;that a large number of people believe a thing does not mean it is true. There are BIlLIONS more non Christians than Christians.By your reasoning that means Christians are wrong.
Atheists have an obligation to prove NOTHING;we make no claims. The burden of proof belongs to the person making the claim.That you are unable to grasp the notion of 'the burden of proof' does not make me wrong;it simply reveals you as willfully ignorant and probably stupid (OK,that wasn't a secret)
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Quote:When debating any issue, there is an implicit burden of proof on the person asserting a claim. "If this responsibility or burden of proof is shifted to a critic, the fallacy of appealing to ignorance is committed".[1] This burden does not necessarily require a mathematical or strictly logical proof, although many strong arguments do rise to this level (such as in logical syllogisms). Rather, the evidential standard required for a given claim is determined by convention or community standards, with regard to the context of the claim in question.[2][3]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophic...n_of_proof