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- From: svanegmo@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen Van Egmond)
- Subject: Re: God exists. Proof within.
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:46:05 GMT
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- A few other comments on this thread:
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- It's been said that the bible is in need of a little "loose interpretation" every
- now and then to put things into propoer perspective (culture, linguistic, etc.
- differences).
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- This is in direct contradiction with an encyclical letter written by the
- previous Pope. I can only go by what I recall from it, which is very little.
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- That pope's claim was that the bible was written, and it maintained, by
- imperfect men who are under divine inspiration and are therefore infalliable.
- It follows, he said, that the bible should therefore be taken literally in all
- aspects of what it has to say about life, the Universe, and Everything.
-
- Also, a textbook definition of a argumentative fallacy is the following.
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- "An argument involves the fallacy of appeal to ignorance when it argues either
- that
- 1. because a statemen is not known to be true or has not been proven,
- 2. therefore it is false
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- or
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- 1. because a statement is not known to be false or has not been disproven,
- 2. therefore it is true
- " - Thinking Logically, 2nd ed, James Freeman
-
- The above argument form (after the "or") is the basis of the argument that
- started this thread. One can't use statistical uncertainty in cases like
- this to argue along the same lines, either.
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