Dana Severance

These two types of fallacies are so closely related, it seemed best to include their bios in the same post…

The first in my series on logical fallacies, the appeal to belief, is simple. It is the fallacious argument that because you, I, or anyone else believes something, that belief somehow confers validity to the argument. Traditionally, it’s similar to an appeal to populous, but I’ve been hearing it applied more and more recently to [...]

Human beings are a contentious lot, and we’ve been arguing long before we formed what we know today as civilization. Fast forward to today and we’ve established a set of rules by which debates can be performed. While points and clear winners are often forgone in favor of a less structured format, the rules for the arguments themselves haven’t changed too much.

I would like to start this off with everyone being very clear that I am an atheist. I do not believe in any deities. There simply isn’t sufficient evidence to prove them empirically. However, I hear many people argue that religion is not a position of proof but rather of faith. Many of these same individuals call their particular deity their Heavenly Father.

Disclaimer: There will be some graphic pictures after the jump, so beware. These are the realities of our world.

I am a resident of Oregon and it pains me to see what is going on in the Nation’s capital. From here, it looks like the Nation’s unemployed and America’s lower income families are being ransomed.