(December 23, 2009 at 8:28 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: From Wikipedia: "The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam ("appeal to ignorance"), argument by lack of imagination, or negative evidence, is a logical fallacy in which it is claimed that a premise is true only because it has not been proven false, or is false only because it has not been proven true."They are exactly doing that when they claim to know for absolute anything particular about a god (a true premisse) and at the same time deny any perceivable properties of such entity, because the latter implies that it will always be unproven.
So unless such a person claims that they must be right about God because they haven't been proven wrong, or that others must be wrong about God for not proving themselves right... then I guess they aren't falling into it? Unless I'm missing some implication from in your above post?
If they do not claim it absolute, but assume it on faith only, I really see no difference with fantasizing about goblins in my backyard.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0