Reply #111: What you "proved" in those threads, dear Zeb... [View All]

[trotsky]

is that the lone remaining device in the theist's toolbox is the good old Argument from Ignorance.

Now before you launch into your self-pitying "goatherder" misunderstanding, let me once again state what the Argument from Ignorance is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

The two most common forms of the argument from ignorance, both fallacious, can be reduced to the following form:

* Something is currently unexplained (or insufficiently explained), so it was not, or could not, be true.
* Because there appears to be a lack of evidence for one hypothesis, another chosen hypothesis is therefore considered proven.

Your intellectual and theological predecessors used the same Argument from Ignorance to confidently state:

1) "We do not know what causes lightning, therefore it must be a god."
2) "We do not know why the sun and moon move through the sky, therefore gods do it."
3) "We do not know what causes disease, therefore it must be demons and/or sin."

And so today you continue in their noble tradition (which carries with it a track record of UNIVERSAL failure) by stating:

"We do not know what caused/created/etc. the universe, therefore it must be my god."

Do you understand yet why this doesn't constitute "proof" of anything?