RE: Presuppositional Fallacies
August 12, 2012 at 1:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2012 at 1:53 pm by Whateverist.)
Very nice to have them laid out so plain like this.
Probably handled by "bare assertion" with a dash of "special pleading". Maybe this should be filed as a subset of "bare assertion" under a heading of 'Remarkably naive & unnuanced'.
Or, my favorite,
How could humans conceive of "the most perfect" if there wasn't necessarily a "most perfect being" .. who would not only enable that category to exist but would also, single handedly, be responsible for the creation of everything there is or ever was. As a surprise bonus, this being would also have carved out a corner of his most perfectness where we can sing his praises for eternity, while every other animal on the planet who is born to a mother shall continue to disappear entirely in a natural death. We are truly blessed.
What a powerful idea! Spread the good news!
(August 12, 2012 at 12:15 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: God-Verb-It:
OK, this technically isn't a logical fallacy but presenting it as an "explanation" for anything should be.
Probably handled by "bare assertion" with a dash of "special pleading". Maybe this should be filed as a subset of "bare assertion" under a heading of 'Remarkably naive & unnuanced'.
(August 12, 2012 at 12:31 pm)Chuck Wrote: Presuppositional apologetics:
Jesus must be true on a level more transcendent, in some nebulous and yet surely overwhelming way, than any contrary argument cuz I believe in Jesus and I am right!
Or, my favorite,
How could humans conceive of "the most perfect" if there wasn't necessarily a "most perfect being" .. who would not only enable that category to exist but would also, single handedly, be responsible for the creation of everything there is or ever was. As a surprise bonus, this being would also have carved out a corner of his most perfectness where we can sing his praises for eternity, while every other animal on the planet who is born to a mother shall continue to disappear entirely in a natural death. We are truly blessed.
What a powerful idea! Spread the good news!
