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?
Quote:Appeal to authority. Shallow. How much evidence have those men produced to prove that god exists? Zero.
You are a fool. It is not fallacious to appeal to authority, people do it all the time. You appeal to authority every time you say evolutionary theory is true without having a direct experience of the truth of evolutionary theory, that is, everytime you do not see the terms involved involved, that you base your conclusions on propositions you can't see, you are appealing to authority.
You are a fool if you think the witness of western civilization counts for nothing. I could almost garentee you that you are under 25 or perhaps under 30. Adults don't think the way that you do. You have a foolish spirit going through you.
Go ask someone over 30 whether it matters what the greatest figures in Western civilization have thought.
Grow up. Just because something doesn't demonstrate the truth of an argument doesn't mean it is fallacious. This is the way that children reason. Obviously my intent was not to demonstrate the truth of Christianity, only to show that it is a good starting point because of the large numbers of people who have considered to be true.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
1 Cor 13:11
