RE: Science and religion
March 24, 2013 at 4:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2013 at 4:46 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 24, 2013 at 4:37 pm)Darkstar Wrote:(March 24, 2013 at 4:33 pm)jstrodel Wrote: What percentage of great scientists, philosophers, writers, historians, men who are responsible for the learning of societies have been Christian in the last 500 years?
You don't even understand what the shallow arguments are. You don't even know what the arguments are for God's existence.
You don't know what shallow arguments are, considering you just made one. What percentage of people have been Christians in the last 500 years?
What does that have to do with anything? The more people are Christian, who may possibly have justified beliefs surrounding Christianity (perhaps through miracles or through study and wisdom), the more likely Christianity is true. This does not prove Christianity is true, but it makes it more likely that it is.
This is not ad populum. Ad populum involved unjustified beliefs. If people have justified beliefs or something that is likely to confer justification (being a scientist, philosopher or theologian), it is not ad populum to appeal to them, it is an argument from authority.
