JP Holding (aka bob turkel) really needs to learn some basic logic. His website is full of examples of text book examples of logical fallacies. To demonstrate this i went through his homepage and found ten on the home page alone:
1.by naming the authors of the articles on tekton he is comiting the apeal to authority falacy. for example 'william lane craig on preterism' is a classic example of this
2.loaded language. 'trusting the new testament' assumes that the new testament is trustworthy.
3.the subtitle 'education and pologetics ministry' is an equovication between the words education and apologetics.
4.having a last updated date is example of cronological snobbery. something is true independantly of when it was written so making out bob turkel regualy updates the website is irelevant.
5.there is a cartoon picture of a scholar, this is a false analogy
6.the apologetics encyclopedia is an appeal to ignorance as if falls back on bob turkels ignroance of stuff
7.boasting aabout the fact tekton have 1500 articles is an appeal ad populum
8.the bullet point 'how personable is god' is a loaded question as it presposes god exists
9.describing theologyweb as an exclusive place for debate is a hasty generalisation (and indeed there are plenty of other places for debate)
10.the tekton e-block bullet points form a non-sequiturd
now seeing as this is the home page, im sure the articles themselves contain far more logical errors. Now lets ignore that and be generour and assume there are ten logical falacies on a page. thats 10x1500 which for those who arent any good at maths is 150000 errors. So the bottom line is this:
Tekton apolgetics website contains 150000 textbook examples of logical fallacies
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
everything needs a cause?
now theists will claim that the universe must of been created by something because universes dont apear out of nowhere and for no reason. They say that everything apart from there sky daddy must have a cause. apart from begging the question - who made their sky daddy? - the claim that everything must have a cause is also false. Things often happen for no reason and without a cause. For example computers will stop working without a cause or my house keys will go missing when i most need them only to turn up later without any aparant cause
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
did nazereth exist?
archaology has always been a problem for xians, particuarly the fact it has shown nazareth never existed. Now xians may hope that the recent descvery of a house in nazerth proves nazareth did exist however this would be a massive error.
Firstly, you need more than one house for a town and archaologists have only found 1. Secondly, archaologists make mistakes and even produce forgeries so wheather it is genuine is controversial. in short, the view nazareth didnt exist when jebus was alive still stands strong despite this new evidence.
Firstly, you need more than one house for a town and archaologists have only found 1. Secondly, archaologists make mistakes and even produce forgeries so wheather it is genuine is controversial. in short, the view nazareth didnt exist when jebus was alive still stands strong despite this new evidence.
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Happy Mithermas
every 25th of december pagans would come out and celebrate the birthday of mithras. Father mithras would come and give presents and a tree would be taken in and decorated. people would decorate there houses and sing songs about mithras being visted by wise men and shepards.
Shame those xians stole christmas from the pagans.
Shame those xians stole christmas from the pagans.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Jebus - a druid copy cat?
it appears that there is evidence that jebus (if he existed) visted england and was taught by druids. I guess it looks like xianity was stolen/plagiarised from druidism.
Saturday, 31 October 2009
Faces in places
people tend to see faces in all kinds of places and so maybe thats how the resurrection myth started. And maybe thats why xians think they sometimes see jebus (particuarly in pieces of toast etc)
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