Top 25 Creationist Logical Fallacies

Ad Hominem - attack the opponent n

Man on the street interview

Non Sequitur

Red Herring - distraction

Personal Incredulity - personal disbelief

Ignorance - like god of the gaps

Violation of the philosophy of science

Equivocation - misleading of a use of a word that has multiple meaning (e.g. Theory)

False Dichotomy

Begging the Question - circular reasoning.

Tautology - begging the question.

False Premise - Kalam argument (first cause)

Ad Hoc Reasoning - for this purpose

Slippery Slope

Correlation implies co-relationship

Creative Math

Moving the goalpost

Just Plain Nonsense

Outright Lie

Crash Course In Critical Thinking

If you want to hear the Q&A in the last few seconds of the video a link will appear, click on it.

Faith Or Reason

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Sloppy Christian Thinking

Christian Logic

I Know In My Heart

Christian Logic To Make Your Brain Hurt

Exactly How Tall Was The Tower Of Babel

Genesis 11:1-9

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

How impossible would it seem to have mankind land on the moon in as little as 100 years ago in spite of different languages? Funny how the "god" presence becomes smaller and smaller the more we learn and understand our world. As frightened primitives we made up all kinds of stories about god(s). If we were the problem then we can fix it. Blood sacrifices will make this terrifying One happy again. However, we now know how vast the universe is and we know that events in life just happen so we don't have that illusionary control anymore. We can face life squarely as it is. The results have been far better than anyone could have expected.

God Of Paradox

Should We Question What We Were Taught

Who Created God?

Proof God Does Not Exist Theodicy Argument

TGBaker on the Rational Readers Squad website has put together a logic proof for the non-existence of God. It is really good.

1) There is a possible world of only well-being (p).

2) A capable limitless good being (x) knowing of this world (p) would actualize (necessarily) it over possible worlds with evil and suffering (q).

3)x necessarily would not allow q

4)p-->; not q

5) It is possible that god is x

6)q -->; not p

7) Our world=q therefore not p

8)not p

9)not p--->;not x

10)not x

11)god= not x

Skepticism Is A Virtue

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

Morality Without A God

God Has No Free Will

Assumptions:

• There is a God who is a personal being and all knowing.
• Humans are personal beings but are limited in our knowledge
• Personal beings have free will

In order to have free will, you must have more than one option, each of which is avoidable. This means that before you make a choice, there must be a state of uncertainty before the decision is final.

A being who knows everything can have no "state of uncertainty". There are no options to weigh. It knows in advance what it will do for all eternity. Since it has no choice it has no free will.

Since a being that lacks free will is not a personal being, a personal being who knows everything cannot exist.

So, we can now logically conclude that omniscience, and free will, are completely incompatible.

To refine the argument :

1. God is defined as a personal being who knows everything.
2. Personal beings have free will.
3. In order to have free will, you must have more than one option, each of which is avoidable. This means that before you make a choice, there must be a state of uncertainty during a period of potential: you cannot know the future. Even if you think you can predict your decision, if you claim to have free will, you must admit the potential (if not the desire) to change your mind before the decision is final.
4. A being who knows everything can have no "state of uncertainty". It knows its choices in advance.
5. A being that knows its choices in advance has no potential to avoid its choices, and therefore lacks free will.
6. Since a being that lacks free will is not a personal being, a personal being who knows everything cannot exist.
7. Therefore, a personal God does not exist.

Baloney Detection Kit

Yahweh Orders Creation

Reality and Belief

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, still exists.

Conversely, if you have to believe in something to "make it so", that something does not exist.

What A Christian Course On Logic Look Like

If you haven't seen it, it is worth checking out

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