Please try to abstain from logical fallacies! Certain people regularly…

Please try to abstain from logical fallacies! Certain people regularly make comments like this one.

“Please post a link to a credible scientific organization that backs up your claim.”

Firstly they don’t define what “credible” is and yet frequently say that only certain organisations are credible. It’s a fallacy to state an organisation is credible because it presents a certain view. No one is credible because they are credible. Secondly this way of argumentation is a faulty appeal to authority – which is yet another logical fallacy, i.e. “Bill believes X therefore X is true”. This only shows how “irrational” this kind of argumentation is.

I am posting this as a post – because I would like to encourage people in this channel to follow some level of rational argumentation process in order to argue their case.

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6 comments

Marc Amiel S. Montemayor says:

March 14, 2020 at 5:46 am

When one doesn’t like what’s presented or has a preference will always have a point of contention.

Adam Floyd says:

March 14, 2020 at 6:39 pm

There is one atheist here who posts regularly and is particularly ignorant of argumentative philosophy.

Unfortunately, this is not the best forum for educating on that subject, as people are generally already in “talk to the hand” mode once they determine you disagree with them.

Ava Reyes says:

March 15, 2020 at 11:57 am

Your sources have zero credibility. That’s not my fault.

Ava Reyes says:

March 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm

In order to establish a rational argument, we must use sources that can pass an independent credibility check. There’s just too much misinformation on the internet. We can’t just throw out random Youtube videos and known pseudo-scientific sources and pretend like they are credible when we know they are not.

Steve Forkin says:

March 16, 2020 at 5:05 pm

There is no such thing as an “independent credibility check” that’s a nonsense argument – when there are two opposing sides to an argument there is no neutrality – that is a logical fallacy! Much of what evolutionists say is “pseudo science” so this is just an argument that will go around in circles and get no-where. Materialistic evolutionary theory fails basic “rationality and pre-conditions for intelligibility” tests – so if you believe in “materialistic evolution” – the kind that says “energy and matter is all there is” – you have no justification for any argument as you cannot be “certain about anything”. There are transcendental entities such as the “laws of causality” and the “laws of logic” and “absolute morals” that “materialistic evolution” as zero justification for and cannot explain – they are unsurmountable boundaries that render this theory irrational!

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