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Pauline
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07-20-2010 3:08 PM


Glad to see the board back and running.
Alright, the circular reasoning fallacy is a familiar old friend. How many times have we not heard evolutionists accuse creationists of the circular reasoning fallacy when talking about the Bible's authority or even the Doctrine of inspiration, for instance. But here's the deal: I argue that it is impossible to ascribe ultimate authority to someone/something without said someone/something declaring itself the ultimate authority. People of most commonly held worldviews, whether knowingly or unknowingly, declare one single thing/person to be the ultimate authority. For instance, Christians declare God to the ultimate authority; Rationalists declare reason to be the ultimate authority, Some but not all atheists declare science to be the ultimate authority. No matter what the object may be, one cannot ascribe ultimate authority to it unless the object itself categorically declares itself 'I am the ultimate authority'. Everybody who believes in an ultimate authority follows circular reasoning. Prepare to answer this, those of you who hold science as the ultimate authority.
If looked at from a broader perspective, one of the ways in which the two worldviews: Christian and Atheistic, differ is that the former requires an ultimate authority namely God (Basis: God self-confesses to be so), while the latter, from what I know, does not require the concept of a single ultimate authority although certain atheists place science under this category. So, for those of you who do count science as the ultimate authority: why is that? For those atheists who don't, why is it not?
In light of this, it seems to me that this 'circular reasoning logical fallacy' though certainly valuable intrinsically, is being misused by atheists as a ad-hominem tool on most atheist-christian debate arenas for neither is it well thought out by them nor is it applicable to a Christian worldview.
Thanks.
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