Inaugural entry into DELF Database

There are already two submissions to our Documented Errors, Lies, and Fallacies (DELF) of "Debunking Christianity" Database. One of them is pending. The other made it after review:

Matt,

Here's a submission for the blog......

Loftus fallaciously remarked as follows: "In the first place, what is the evidence against the existence of fairies or unicorns? If by looking and not seeing any isn’t considered evidence against their existence, then I don’t know what is required here. Let Dr. Craig first provide evidence against the existence of fairies or unicorns and I’ll provide evidence against the existence of God."

Link to Occurrence: http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-evidence-is-there-against.html

John here commits the fallacy of false analogy. Wiki explanation: In an analogy, two concepts, objects or events proposed to be similar in nature (A and B) are shown to have some common relationship with another property. The premise is that A has property X, and thus B must also have property X (due to the assumed similarity of A and B). In false analogies, though A and B may be similar in one respect (such as color) they may not both share property X (e.g. size). Thus, even if bananas and the sun appear yellow, one could not conclude that they are the same size. The concept of an extraordinarily powerful, all-knowing, all-good, personal being (i.e., God) is not analogous to John's imaginations about "fairies" and "unicorns", since the concepts involve fundamentally distinct properties. Thus John's demand for Craig to provide evidence against fairies and unicorns is nonsensical, and John uses it as a means to avoid giving evidence for his own atheistic worldview.

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