T = people do speak in tounges (read: talk in languages that they don't know) and interpret them (read: understand languages they don't know)
T -> G
Because T, therefore G.
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The symbolic logic is sound, but it uses a false premise. It's about as sound as "Because the ancient Greeks sacrificed to Zeus, Zeus exists."
Thank God (excuse the phrase). I thought this was going to be JohnR7 talking about genetics and language...
Hmm...
FIRST: There has never been a single, documented, verified case of anyone, EVER, speaking coherently in a language they do not know. (Unless you count Hollywood.)Christian god is responsible...? Couldn't it be argued that it proves the existence of Zeus, or Shiva, or maybe any of a million Hindu gods? What will you do if this hypothetical true event occurs, and the "prophet" beings to extoll the virtues of the Flying Shaghetti Monster...? Will you convert since this is aparently the one condition for the verification of a deity?
FIFTH: With apolgies to Douglas.
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"Ah, but speaking in tongues proves you exist," says SuperTails92, " so therefore you don't."
"Oh dear, says God, "I hadn't thought of that." And promplty vanishes in a puff of logic.
....let's hope SuperTails goes looking for a zebra crossing.
Gamefaqs? How the hell does this have anything to do with gamefaqs? And seriously, what??? How can you understand a language you don't know? And how the hell does that prove God exists?
Uh, Just some guy....Ruler of Omicron Persei 8 said: "Why is it that anytime a fundie says 'therefore' it actually turns out to be a non-sequitor?"
1) "Speaking in tongues" does not mean speaking apparent gibberish. It means speaking so that *ALL* heard in their native language. (At least, if the story of Pentecost in the Bible - Acts 2, if I remember correctly - is to be taken as accurate.)
'Speaking in Tongues'?! Well, considering how you fundies are literalists and all, unless you're all Xenomorphs with a larynx down the second trachea leading from that tongue (with it's own set of teeth), then you're just talking a load of bollocks, SuperFAILs(IQ)9.2 [/smartarse]
...and no doubt the designer of said Xenomorphs in the "Alien" films, and pioneer of Biomechanical Art H.R. Giger, has thought of talking testicles too! >:D
The cause of speaking in tongues (T) are one of the following:
Therefore, T does not prove G.
@TMP:
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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