365 Days Of Philosophy

For the following exercise on logical fallacies, have a look at this article printed in The Australian by Greg Sheridan called “The God Question: Listen To Your Inner Voice”. There’s a number of claims that can be identified as fallacies in the article, some are quoted below — which fallacies are they? Some might be used more than once! There’s some hints at the end of this blogpost. Claim One:It is more rational to believe in God than to believe there is no God. In fact, belief in God is much more rational than atheism. The resting place of the mind, its natural equilibrium, as it were, is belief.This is, in truth, a statement of the obvious. Claim Two:In subscribing to atheism they are in radical opposition to the vast majority of people on the planet today, and the overwhelming majority of people who have ever lived in history. There’s our first clue. Claim Three:I have faith that I am the son of my parents. I have no real empirical evidence for it. It makes the most sense as an explanation of my life,