(May 11, 2013 at 12:49 am)Maelstrom Wrote: To state that there is a case for theism is akin to stating that there is a case for murder. Granted, murderers often get acquitted during trial, and in such an imperfect world with an imperfect justice system one cannot expect perfection in matters of intelligence when related to matters of religion. In a perfect world, there would be no murder, there would be no religious people. In an imperfect world where murderers are free to continue killing, one must expect that religious people are also free to continue spreading their ignorance.
This is a blatant logical fallacy. You're attempting to make an inductive argument from analogy, but the analogy you have presented is poorly suited; it is a faulty generalisation. Theism, and making a case for such, is strongly linked to the philosophical discipline of epistemology. Murder, and making a case for such, bares no relevance to epistemology, but rather ethics/moral philosophy.