What sort of reaction do circular-reasoning-junkie Pascalites elicit from you?

Question

Like the ones that go:

"The Bible says God exists, and the Bible must be right since it is the revealed word of God, so God exists.... GOTCHA!!"

or "If Homosexuality is so "natural", why did God make Adam & Eve, and not Adam & Steve? A-HA!!!!"

or the typical "If we evolved....etc etc"

Answer 1

You know, I've spent my life living in places that were ethnically and religiously diverse. I went to a Catholic high school, where I'd say there were mostly religious people but very few who cared about it seriously, and then I went to a very liberal school in New York where "believers" of any sort were in the minority. The more I think about it, I have never ever really gotten into a face to face discussion with somebody who could use those types of arguments with a straight face.

Yet in America there are apparently very many of those people. I know I've just been living in a bubble.

When I read internet forums, or see the questions and answers on this site, I see people saying things about Jesus and God and Christianity and holding them up as Truth even though there is no evidence and no likelihood of them being True. I see it and I react to it with some sort of disbelief.

But sometimes I think it's easy to forget that these aren't just silly statements and questions thrown out there for me to chew on. These are actually the real opinions of real people. I don't know how I'd react if I had to stare a "True Believer" in the face, someone who was actually so blind and so willing to deny everything that humanity has worked towards and achieved. I'd probably just be shocked to physically interact with someone who would willfully deny the usage of their ability to reason in favor of make-believe.

Answer 2

Can't believe you're accusing Christians of circular reasoning, when your belief system (evolution) depends on it.

Go to an encyclopedia and look up fossils or paleontology. You'll probably find an explanation of the process that science uses to establish the age of fossils and rocks. As you read you will discover that certain index fossils provide clues to the age of the rock that contains them. So far so good, but keep reading. Later you will learn that rock layers are used to date the fossils contained in them. A mad circle has been uncovered. How can either tell the age of the other if either depends on the other to establish its own age? This is circular reasoning.

Paleontologists assume that biologists have proven evolution to be true. But biologists assume evolution to be true, so their dating schemes are based on an assumption that has never been proven. We do well to be skeptical of an old earth for the same reason; the earth must be old since evolution is true and requires such a time frame, at least that is how some would have us believe. This certainly is not science, even though it comes from the evolutionist old earth camp. Circular reasoning is just one common tactic that has been used to establish credibility for a theory in distress - evolution and its requirement of an old earth.

Answer 3

there was one that didnt use circular.

reasoning but statistical methods.

1 : 10 power 400 is the probability that life evolves from soup.

for him math was everything and this reasonong had pulled him over the line to become a christian.

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the effect it had on me , we are dealing here with a liar a man with a family two little kids i saw his photo.... he already believed.
its sad for the kids.

Answer 4

A sad sigh, and sometimes a quote from Scar in the Lion King.

Answer 5

It makes me miss my ma- that's the type of stuff she always says to me

Answer 6

I laugh, and laugh, and laugh. Then I cry a little. Then I post snarky comments.