Today’s quote is looking at another way ungodly thinkers use the ad ignorantiam question fallacy. There are good reasons to ask someone how their idea or claim works. It can help you understand their claim. It can’t tell you whether their claim is true or false. It can’t prove anything. We know many things because God reveals them to us. For instance, we know the Bible is God’s Word without error, and we may know some truths about that fact. However, we can’t answer every question about the Bible unless God reveals the answers to us.

(quote from RealReality.org/Real_Faith_and_Reason_Vol_2_-_Scientia.pdf)

“How does it work?”

With the “how does it work” ad ignorantiam question, here’s the claim. “If you don’t know how something works, that proves or disproves some point.” That claim is false. If you don’t know the answer to a question, that just proves you don’t know the answer. It doesn’t prove anything else. A persuader may ask exactly how God created the heavens and the earth or how the first life got started. They may ask whether the Second Law of Thermodynamics was enforced in the Garden of Eden or what existed before a supposed big bang created everything from nothing. God hasn’t revealed everything. Speculation is just putting yourself on the same level as the ungodly persuader since speculation is making up stuff. Can your lack of knowledge have any effect on reality? No. That’s why ad ignorantiam is a fallacy.

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