I Don’t Get It, So You Must Be Wrong

August 4, 2019 merlyn80

* From “The A**HOLE’S Guide To Arguing (Or, How To Succeed In Politics)”

“Evolution? Maybe your ancestors were amoebas, but mine certainly weren’t. Maybe that’s why you’re so dumb. You came from frickin’ amoebas. My ancestors were humans.”

When people find something difficult to understand or hard to believe, they may be tempted to dismiss it as false. This is the fallacy of personal incredulity, which pretty much means that, 'I don't get it, so you must be wrong'. Share on X

“The Bible says that God is good. I don’t see how a good God could allow all this suffering. So either God is not good, or there is no God.”

“The Bible also tells us that the Lord works in mysterious ways. And how could you look at this world, at all the wonders He has created and still think that there is no God, or that He is not good?”

Here, both argue that the other is wrong from the same fallacy. Neither are able to see the other persons point of view or understand their argument.

One is incapable of or unwilling to see that God exists, or that he is good. The other is equally incapable of seeing that he might not exist, or that he might not be good. These two will never agree.

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To reach an agreement or win someone over, the other must be willing to entertain the thought that they might be wrong. Or at the very least be open to new ideas and evidence. Share on X

One response to personal incredulity would be to point out that many things that we now take for granted were before thought impossible.

Mobiles, computers, television, aircraft, submarines and space travel were just science fiction. Weird ideas inhabiting the daydreams of people with too much time on their hands and no common sense.