RE: Modern examples of gullibility as evidence against Christian claims
July 11, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Thanks for the help. Those all seem to touch on what Godschild is saying, but I think it is a little harder to classify than that. Up against Hinduism it would be special pleading, but if Godschild actually belonged to the world's oldest still existent relgion, it might not be. The appeal to belief seems to revolve around how many people believe rather than how long it has been believed. And it's not really an argument from age, since the argument isn't that it's true because the ancients knew better, the argument is that it is true because it has lasted so long.
It's a non sequitur, which all formal fallacies are, so we can leave it at that. I doubt someone claiming an idea must be true because it has lasted a long time comes up often enough to make it worth naming.
It's a non sequitur, which all formal fallacies are, so we can leave it at that. I doubt someone claiming an idea must be true because it has lasted a long time comes up often enough to make it worth naming.
