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Originally Posted by EatingPie
I am going to say three things, then stop.
Actually, I knew exactly what "virtually" meant, and when still saying "almost everybody," you have a fallacious statement. You cannot poll "everybody" so you cannot state with any reliability or factuality if "almost all" (or even "most") scholars believe a certain thing.
There is yet another fallacy in this that I have not pointed out. Citing a majority -- even if you could prove a majority -- is not even solid ground to stand upon. If I said "most Americans believe in God" to an atheist, how much water would that hold in an argument? None at all, because most Americans could be wrong! And numerical superiority has no bearing on truth. (I cannot recall the name of the fallacy off the top of my head, but it's on that harbinger of wisdom, wikipedia!  )
And, finally, I apologize back. I did not see your response when I posted to HarryT, and I would have replied to you directly if I had. So that was my bad there.
-Pie |
I t aught to make the atheist stop and think for a second.... How could most people be wrong about something like that?