(March 24, 2013 at 4:45 pm)jstrodel Wrote: 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.
Argumentum ad populum
Actually, it is still ad populum. Being a scientist and a Christian does not mean you used science to justify being a Christian. If anyone could bring forth scientific evidence of a god, everyone would know about it by now.
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
