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Logic and the Way of Jesus (with Travis Dickinson)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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The Fallacy of Argument From Silence

One of my favorite sections in your book is on fallacies. I used to teach a high school freshman, and we'd do a logical fallacies book. Once they learned it, saw how it applied to life,. Let's walk through a couple of these. For example, there's the slaughter of the innocents in the gospel of matthew by herod at the birth of jesus. One criticism is that josephus doesn't mention this, and if it happened, which falalcy is this?

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