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Originally Posted by flames85
Irrational comparison. When as many people believe in your invisible dragon in your garage as the amount of people that believe in God in the world, with all the history involved then you could call me illogical.
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There was a time when far more people believed in some other god or gods than you do. Are you implying the existence of gods changes depending on how many people believe or do not believe in them?
I've already posted this,
argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy. How many people think something has nothing to do with the validity of the claim.
It is a perfectly valid comparison. But substitute any other God which has a large # of people believing in it for the invisible dragon if you wish, the point remains unchanged: belief in something
only because it hasn't been proven to not exist isn't reasonable. All the lack of proof of nonexistence does is allow for belief to be possible.