RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
August 25, 2012 at 11:19 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2012 at 11:26 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(August 25, 2012 at 11:09 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:(August 25, 2012 at 10:13 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: [quote='Lion IRC' pid='327049' dateline='1345944464']
Pointing out to someone that they stand in direct conflict with the prevailing, majority, expert, informed opinion on a given matter is NOT a logical fallacy per se.
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It is if you think you proven your opponent wrong simply by saying the majority disagrees, which is what you and your buddy did. Mythicist are well aware they're in the minority.
Quote:It is simply a challenge put upon that person to demonstrate why THEIR opinion is a more reasonable position than that of the experts by whom they are out-numbered.
Which is fine, but it was originally used as a dismissal here, not a challenge.
Quote:And you cannot excuse yourself from that challenge by simply chanting "logical fallacy/appeal to authoritylogical fallacy/appeal to authoritylogical fallacy/appeal to authority" over and over again like some get-out-of-jail-free card.We can't just let fallacies slide, especially when such a basic one was made a central argument.
Quote:How about the Jesus mythers step away from the logical fallacy auto-cue screen and get stuck into the hard details of the prevailing, majority, expert position instead?
That's fine. Just stop committing fallacies please.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
