In the discussion following last week’s Fallacy Friday topic, Ad Populum, LJ asked about the ad ignorantiam fallacy. In particular she wanted to know about its relationship to creationism. I suspect LJ was being sarcastic but despite this it is worth exploring this issue a bit. First, we should recall that a fallacy is not simply […]
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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Tu Quoque (But you did it too!)
April 5th, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: Tu Quoque (But you did it too!)
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • iTunes • One-Click The Mp3 of Tu Quoque is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 series use the […]
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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: The Straw Man
March 27th, 2011 Comments Off on Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: The Straw Man
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • iTunes • One-Click The Mp3 of The Straw Man is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate MP3 series use the […]
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Fallacy Friday Podcast on Apologetics 315: The Genetic Fallacy
March 21st, 2011 2 Comments
Apologetics 315 are producing an audio version of Matt’s Fallacy Friday series. The Fallacy Friday Podcasts are released every Friday on Apologetics 315. You can subscribe using: • RSS Feed • Via iTunes • one-click to your feed-reader The Mp3 of The Genetic Fallacy is here. To navigate the series in print, use the Fallacy Friday tag, to navigate […]
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Fallacy Friday: Petitio Principii (Begging the Question)
March 19th, 2011 7 Comments
For the last few Fridays I have been publishing a blog series on logical fallacies. This begs the question, what fallacy will I discuss today? The above sentence illustrates how the phrase “begs the question” is commonly misused. To test how pervasive this misuse is I typed “this begs the question” into Google and limited it […]
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
