(September 17, 2013 at 2:58 pm)Drich Wrote: I did not appeal to the popular belief of the masses as Ad populum states.
I said put your belief aside, and look at what the Majority of the world believes. The majority of the world 'right or wrong' believes in God one way or another. which means (for a thinking man anyway.) That pro-carrots caviate (God would make himself known to everyone) is indeed what has happened.
-for only a small minority go against what God put in their heart to say they believe there is no God.
You're propping up your claim by pointing out that the majority believes it. That's ad populum.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
