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Facts and Logic Arguments Considered Futile

I see videos and articles fairly regularly claiming to Destroy an astrologist with Logic, or Obliterate a christian with Science, and i think that these are nonsense.

Furthermore, such videos only serve to widen a divide between science and religion that is for all intents artificial.

Most of the times, the process seems quite unscientific: two people will be sat down, and one will slowly dominate the discussion by talking louder, interrupting, and dropping fallacious arguments to draw applause from the crowd, who are usually of the same mindset as the winning party. It is just as easy to find videos in the other direction, where a Christion Spreads the Word to a Born-Again Scientist or something, but that isn't the focus of this article. It's a process that makes me quite uncomfortable and i think misses the point of religion.

I should note here that in this article i am going to be making statements as facts that reflect the dominant christian understanding of God. For the purpose of following along, you too should take them as known truths, because for many christians From now on im not going to use determiners when i mean the majority of christians. they are known truths, and its christians youre arguing against.

God is omnipotent

God is the most powerful being in the universe. Can we come up with tricky logic games where God makes a rock that God cant lift? Yes. Should we? No, because i believe in interpreting any argument in the strongest light, and it seems to me that this is an issue of language. Let me know if you disagree. With that in mind, God can do whatever God wants, including not being limited to universal laws.


i want to put like a little story here about someone who was lost but when someone showed them a map with directions, they were like no but see look at my map and both maps were internally correct but they showed slightly different things but i can't think of an easy way to explain that. maybe an abstract map like the tube or something would work?