The Most Frequently Heard Fallacy of the Anti-Christian Skeptic
Here’s betting you’ve never heard of Sir Richard Whately. Even so, Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive? explains why Whately is a 19th Century logician and churchman who is very much worth knowing about:
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“Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was a brilliant guy. He was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who was also a reforming Archbishop of Dublin of the Church of Ireland. That’s a lengthy resume.
“In addition to his role as a leader in the Anglican church, he was a prolific author who tackled a wide variety of topics, and he was one of the first people to discover the legendary Jane Austen.
“This is a quote from his book “Elements in Logic”, and I believe it’s extremely relevant today. Here Whately tackles one of the skeptic’s favorite fallacies:
“’Similar to this case is that which may be called the Fallacy of objections; i.e. showing that there are objections against some plan, theory, or system, and thence inferring that …'”
Go here for the rest of Whately’s explanation.
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