Christians / Atheist: It's background-check time. Who has actually taken a single course in logic?

Question

I am sick of people talking about how logical this or that position is, while they traffic in their own logical fallacies. You look like fools.

Dr. Smelly: If you need me to explain "logic" you certainly didn't take it in college or grad school. Hitler use "logic" do kill Jews? Are you stupid? He used gas.

ElevenEleven: Almost all theistic arguments are deductive. Very, very few are inductive. You saying they are "all inductive" casts doubt on whatever education you claim to have.

Answer 1

In high school. None in college. One semester in seminary. Now I teach it, along with Intro. to Philosophy, Intro to Dogmatics and Intro. to Sacramental Theology.

Without the ability to argue/explain things logically....we end up talking in circles.

Answer 2

I'm a Christian and science lover, and find logical and illogical company in both areas. I took a course in logic, a few in religious studies and several in philosophy (all of which were elective; my major was journalism). They were my favorite classes, and I only try now to carry the stuff I learned and study habits over to the rest of my life. I always get irked by the implication that there's something nefarious, something unfaithful about thoroughly studying religion. An examined faith, I think, is a deeper faith, and if it doesn't stand up to cursory examination, it was weak or built upon weak stuff to begin with. When logical inconsistencies reveal this view or that (in church or science) to be erroneous, it's not my faith in the whole area that's shaken, just my desire to cling to that particular view. Christian literalism of six-24-hour-days creation or some atheists' assertion that Jesus might've lived but was just "a kind individual and good teacher." Are good examples from each "camp" -- while I dismiss both views, I don't dismiss the faith or study they incorporate.

Answer 3

Visit the website of Derek Prince. He was a professor of philosophy at Eton College, majoring in logic, having been educated at Cambridge University, until he had a personal encounter with the Risen Christ @ 1942, and spent the rest of his life spreading the Gospel and teaching the Bible. His personal testimony is that the Bible is the most logical book he has ever read. Many, many learned men have held the same opinion.

Answer 4

I never took a formal course, but I program computers and as a result I use Logic Gates so I know something about AND OR NOT, XOR and the algebra that goes with it.

What's your point, a Nobel Prize winning Physics team got their Nobel prize for predictive motion and TAKING ERROR into account they summized the EARTH can be SAID to be MOTIONLESS.

Logic prevails and when those experiments are run today they come up with the same FRACTIONAL value and if you apply LOGIC and say MAYBE I MADE A MISTAKE that fractional value can become ZERO, hence the EARTH does not move.

Logic proves it.

And it won a Nobel PRIZE.

Answer 5

I took logic in college, plus majored in religion. I've also continued to research the ways to interpret the logic of statements and identify logical fallacies.

Thanks for asking.

Answer 6

Shouldn't you be more interested in how many actually successfully completed and PASSED a course in logic?

From your question, I'm deducing that you probably took a course in logic once, but dropped out about half way through.

Answer 7

Minored in Logic in college, thanks....Led me to be Agnostic since all the arguments concerning God seem to be inductive....Seemed "logical"....What religion are you, by the way?

EDIT: Allow me to clarify...Although they are often presented as deductive arguments, they are inductive....Had they been Deductive, and we all agreed on the premises, we'd all have to agree on the conclusion.

EDIT II: You never answered my question.

Answer 8

I am a Jew, and I have taken courses in philosophy and rhetoric, which were in large part dedicated to a study of logic.

Answer 9

I am not Spock, nor do I come from Vulcan, but it would seem that Logic is a matter of perspective, derived from ones "point of view"
One persons logical point of view is not anothers.

Answer 10

I've taken several college courses in logic, debate, philosophy, psychology, and religion.