RE: Why is faith important?
March 12, 2013 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2013 at 5:22 pm by Jackalope.)
(March 12, 2013 at 4:49 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Your claim is different than actually showing this. A testimony is a historical document. People would not reduce what the majority of ancient people believed and recorded to be an argument ad populum. You are just using certain categories, you are not actually making an argument. You did not even respond to what I wrote about that earlier.
Testimony CAN be a historical document, but that says nothing about it's truth value.
You argument essentially boils down to "A lot of people claim that they have experienced the supernatural". Absent anything to corroborate said claims, the claim is extremely weak.
In addition, that people claim something says nothing about it's truth value. Non-sequitur / unsupported assertion.
My argument boils down to "your argument is fallacious and your conclusions are a non-sequitur". Your argument deserves nothing more.
Incidentally, I didn't respond to your other post because I had not yet seen it.