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Old 09-19-2017, 04:00 PM   #8
Andrew66
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Up to the usual theologue trickery eh, the good ole fallacy!

argumentum ad populum

Getting a bit tired after a few millenia (YAWN!).

Sinny, up to your old atheist trickery are you!

Argumentum ad populum eh??- I would agree that just because a majority of people believe something doesn't make it true, classic case in point is there was a time when the uneducated believed the world was flat.

However in the case for Jesus's resurrection, you have general consensus -
not from uneducated opinions, but from learned scholars of history (including atheists and agnostics etc) based on analysis of physical historic evidence.

Consensus statements are commonly used in science (for example medicine, upon review of data on how to treat a disease for example), - and the FDA doesn't cry "Argumentum ad populum" here do they.
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