RE: AF Hall of Fallacies
May 28, 2013 at 3:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 28, 2013 at 3:59 pm by Whateverist.)
(May 28, 2013 at 2:09 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: But yes, Christians believe scripture is an infallible authority.
Whether or not the bible is an infallible authority, can you think of any other instances of infallible authorities? I'm just wondering if the category is meaningful apart from the claims attributed to holy books.
Even if someone is in prime position to have seen an event, can we be sure there is no alternative event which could have given rise to what was seen? For that matter, can we be sure that someone in the position to provide authoritative witness to an event will have no motive to give false witness?
I can make sense of someone being an expert witness, who can speak with a great deal of knowledge on a subject. But "infallible"? I don't see how you can be sure of that. Of course I understand that you don't really care how the bible is able to provide infallibly authoritative answers. You're just very certain that it does. However your certainty doesn't assure me that the category "infallible authority" is not in fact an empty set as I suspect.
