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Logical Fallacy of Wishful Thinking:Whenever a logical fallacy is committed, the fallacy has its roots in Agrippa's trilemma. All human thought (without Divine revelation) is based on one of three unhappy possibilities. These three possibilities are infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This problem is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Some have claimed that only logic and math can be known without Divine revelation; however, that is not true. Without Divine revelation, neither logic nor math can be known. Science is also limited to the pragmatic because of the weakness on human reasoning, which is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Wishful thinking is one of the many smokescreens that are used to cover the fact that the reasoning is based on one of the three fallacies of Agrippa's trilemma. The logical fallacy of wishful thinking occurs when an appeal is made to whatever is pleasing to imagine rather than dealing with reality. Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Wishful Thinking
This is the logical fallacy of wishful thinking. Bill Nye wishes there were a fossil record that would look line molecules-to-man with a few missing links, but there are no links. The fossils may be called a fossil record, but they aren't a record. We have fossils that we can observe. We can line them up according to similarity, just as we can line up any objects according to similarity. You can line up a knife, fork, and spoon according to similarity. All you need is a good imagination, but imagination is not the same as proof that what is imagined is real. Made up stories certainly are not science. Interestingly, the fossils show families of animals with variation within each family and no fossils between kinds (something close to genus or family). For instance, we see the canine family with a great deal of variation. And we can trace the lineage from one kind of canine to another, like a family tree. But the canine family tree is distinct from all the other family trees. The same is true of the horse kind, the cat kind, the ape kind, and the human kind. Many evolutionists have complained about this problem, but most of them keep their mouths shut about it.
"Natural selection is not really a pressure though. It is only like a bumper in a pinball game, not one of the paddles operated by the mind of the player." This is wishful thinking. (source) Agrippa's Trilemma will assure that every argument against God, against the Bible, and against the history of the Bible will be based on either infinite regression, circular reasoning, or arbitrary assumptions that are taken as axioms. In other words, such arguments must be logical proof by fallacy. Fallacies can be very deceiving and hard to discover, but the fallacies will be there. And it doesn't matter whether the attacks come from an angry man like Dawkins or a rocker like Gungor, the fallacies will be the bases. Agrippa's Trilemma assures this to be true.
Natural selection is not really a pressure, though. It’s only like a bumper in a pinball game, not one of the paddles operated by the mind of the player. - See more at: https://crev.info/2013/04/coelacanth-making-the-most-of-an-unevolved-fish/#sthash.ysbT3JSm.dpuf
Natural selection is not really a pressure, though. It’s only like a bumper in a pinball game, not one of the paddles operated by the mind of the player. - See more at: https://crev.info/2013/04/coelacanth-making-the-most-of-an-unevolved-fish/#sthash.ysbT3JSm.dpuf
Natural selection is not really a pressure, though. It’s only like a bumper in a pinball game, not one of the paddles operated by the mind of the player. - See more at: https://crev.info/2013/04/coelacanth-making-the-most-of-an-unevolved-fish/#sthash.ysbT3JSm.dpuf
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