of arguments from ignorance and Jesus

Discussion about the New Testament, apocrypha, gnostics, church fathers, Christian origins, historical Jesus or otherwise, etc.
Post Reply
User avatar
Peter Kirby
Site Admin
Posts: 8424
Joined: Fri Oct 04, 2013 2:13 pm
Location: Santa Clara
Contact:

of arguments from ignorance and Jesus

Post by Peter Kirby »

Fernando Bermejo-Rubio makes three arguments:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/2013/1 ... 8009.shtml

and the first is, I claim, an example of the fallacy known as an argument from ignorance:

http://peterkirby.com/the-logic-of-deba ... jesus.html

and betrays lack of understanding about the difficulties in proving non-existence, which is something I illustrate with reference to Dharmakirti, a seventh century Indian logician:

http://peterkirby.com/dharmakirti.html
"... almost every critical biblical position was earlier advanced by skeptics." - Raymond Brown
Post Reply