RE: Is Christianity Illogical?
July 15, 2012 at 1:31 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2012 at 1:39 pm by Taqiyya Mockingbird.)
(July 15, 2012 at 1:27 pm)spockrates Wrote:(July 15, 2012 at 12:34 pm)Taqiyya Mockingbird Wrote:![]()
And who in this thread had asserted that claim before you posted in it?
My question was about your strawman OP, which has nothing at all to do with scientists. Non Sequitur.
You are equivocating the word "faith". To be specific, "faith" is belief without evidence. This is the antithesis of the scientific approach, which doubts and attempts to disprove any hypothesis it generates and comes away with confirmed confidence through examination of evidence, as distinguished from your utterly blind, unreasoning "faith". Having been publicly alertrd to this now, you would only be demonstrating your intellectual dishonesty by continuing on this tack.
Whose argument indeed? Thus the straw man.
Yes, I would be committing the informal fallacy of equivocation if I was using the word faith in two different senses in these two statements:
Scientists have faith in the scientific method.
Christians have faith in Christ.
I can see how you'd draw that conclusion, but the truth is that in both statements, I'm intending the word faith to simply mean trust. Therefore, there is no equivocation.
You are still equivocating the meaning of whatever word you use, by disingenuously attempting to conceal the approaches behind each.
You still have not addressed my point of your misuse of the word "illogical", both in the quote I cited and in the strawman podition you propose in the OP.