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To: Salvation

There are a couple of problems in logical analysis that need to be addressed here. First, one logical fallacy is called “god in the gaps” which basically says, if no one knows the causes behind or is unable to explain an observation, this lack of knowledge is taken as proof of a supernatural being having created it. A second related logical fallacy is found in conformational bias. This is just the tendency to only see evidence that you want to see and blocking out or explaining away any evidence against you predetermined conclusion. Then, of course there are straw men (misstating your opponents position in terms favorable to your argument).


52 posted on 12/29/2014 10:42:08 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

I don’t look for God in the gaps. I look for any reason that there is order in the universe. I don’t see a reason.


62 posted on 12/29/2014 11:35:56 AM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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