The Genetic Fallacy (Dinesh D'Souza)
(Via Dinesh D'Souza's Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3zs2dauj) In this debate with atheist John Loftus, Dinesh D'Souza demonstrates the multiplicity of religions is no argument against religion as an enterprise. I uploaded this as I am updating a post of mine on the "genetic fallacy" with this video.
■ Icons of Pluralism Examined: Elephants and Geography Fallacies (https://tinyurl.com/mru27mtd)
Here is the 𝑇𝑅𝐴𝑁𝑆𝐶𝑅𝐼𝑃𝑇:
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To address what seems to me the one point, the glimmer of a point that emerged in [John Loftus’] … opening statement. Essentially, John Loftus said that we “can’t really know if our religion is true because there happen to be many of them. If you happen to be born in Afghanistan, you’d be a Muslim. If you happen to be born in Tibet, you’d be a Buddhist.”
That’s true.
But what on Earth does that prove?
I happen to have been born in Bombay, India, which happens to be a Hindu country, the second largest group is Muslim. Even so, by choice, I am a Christian. Just because the majority religion is one thing doesn’t make it right or wrong.
By the way, what he says about Christianity or Islam, is equally true about beliefs in history or science.
If you are born in Oxford, England, you are more likely to believe the theory of evolution than if you are born in Oxford, Missouri.
If you are born in New Guinea, you are less likely to accept Einstein’s theory of relativity than if you are born in New York City.
What does this say about whether Einstein’s theory of relativity Is true?
Absolutely nothing.
In other words, John Loftus is guilty of what, in logic, is called the genetic fallacy.
It’s the fallacy of confusing the origin of an idea with its veracity, the origin of an idea has absolutely nothing to do with its veracity.
𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐒 𝐈 𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 (some more often than others):
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