Thursday, 19 July 2018

The Divine Fallacy: When People Use ‘God’ as the Explanation

The Divine Fallacy: When People Use ‘God’ as the Explanation

The divine fallacy is a logical fallacy where someone assumes that a certain phenomenon must occur as a result of divine intervention, simply because they don’t know how else to explain it, or because they can’t imagine that this isn’t the case. For example, if someone doesn’t understand how evolution works, they might display the divine fallacy if they claim that their inability...

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