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Evidence God Does Not Exist
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RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist
(May 10, 2010 at 4:46 pm)AngelThMan Wrote: I know this is standard atheist ideology, but since most of society believes in God, who is really making the extraordinary claim? The theist or the atheist?

Here's a lesson about one very fun logical fallacy. We call this one, "Argument from Popularity" which is an incorrect assertion that because the majority of people agree on something, that it then makes it right.

The majority of people believed the world was flat hundreds of years ago. Did their population make it true? Come on, you know the answer.

Further reading: http://skepticwiki.org/index.php/Argumen...Popularity
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin

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Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 9, 2010 at 10:47 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 9, 2010 at 10:51 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Scented Nectar - May 9, 2010 at 11:12 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by fr0d0 - May 9, 2010 at 7:21 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 9, 2010 at 7:48 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by fr0d0 - May 9, 2010 at 7:53 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by AngelThMan - May 9, 2010 at 11:01 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Caecilian - May 10, 2010 at 8:23 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by AngelThMan - May 10, 2010 at 12:41 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 10, 2010 at 9:11 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 10, 2010 at 9:24 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 10, 2010 at 9:26 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Minimalist - May 10, 2010 at 11:22 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 10, 2010 at 12:04 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 10, 2010 at 11:34 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Minimalist - May 10, 2010 at 12:33 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 10, 2010 at 12:56 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by fr0d0 - May 10, 2010 at 3:05 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 10, 2010 at 3:18 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Caecilian - May 10, 2010 at 4:10 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by AngelThMan - May 10, 2010 at 4:46 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Caecilian - May 11, 2010 at 9:05 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 11, 2010 at 9:12 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Eilonnwy - May 11, 2010 at 9:25 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by leo-rcc - May 11, 2010 at 12:41 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by AngelThMan - May 13, 2010 at 4:32 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 13, 2010 at 11:10 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Eilonnwy - May 13, 2010 at 2:02 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by fr0d0 - May 10, 2010 at 5:17 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by SleepingDemon - May 11, 2010 at 3:02 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 12, 2010 at 2:06 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Minimalist - May 12, 2010 at 2:22 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 12, 2010 at 2:56 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Fluké - May 12, 2010 at 6:14 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tavarish - May 12, 2010 at 10:51 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Fluké - May 13, 2010 at 12:58 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Paul the Human - May 13, 2010 at 1:07 pm
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Ace Otana - May 13, 2010 at 5:05 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by padraic - May 13, 2010 at 5:25 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by Ace Otana - May 13, 2010 at 5:40 am
RE: Evidence God Does Not Exist - by tackattack - May 13, 2010 at 11:35 am

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