Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
This week I'm starting a 3-part series on arguments from silence. Last year Testify channel rightly rejected a skeptical challenge to the Virgin Birth on the grounds that it isn't recorded in the Gospel of Mark. Here's that video:
youtube.com/watch?v=YXlZPjFmY9E&t=74s
But in social media comments philosopher Dustin Crummett challenged the video, saying that Testify's argument is like rejecting sensory reliability just because we can find some cases where our senses lead us astray. He also suggested that rejecting the argument from silence in history is like not making the sensible prediction that a brother we're in frequent contact with would tell us if he won the lottery.
I'll be responding to both of these claims in this episode and two more.
Here is a professional paper by Timothy McGrew on problems with the argument from silence in history:
timothymcgrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Argument-from-Silence-Acta-Analytica-Tim-2013.pdf
This week I'm starting a 3-part series on arguments from silence. Last year Testify channel rightly rejected a skeptical challenge to the Virgin Birth on the grounds that it isn't recorded in the Gospel of Mark. Here's that video:
youtube.com/watch?v=YXlZPjFmY9E&t=74s
But in social media comments philosopher Dustin Crummett challenged the video, saying that Testify's argument is like rejecting sensory reliability just because we can find some cases where our senses lead us astray. He also suggested that rejecting the argument from silence in history is like not making the sensible prediction that a brother we're in frequent contact with would tell us if he won the lottery.
I'll be responding to both of these claims in this episode and two more.
Here is a professional paper by Timothy McGrew on problems with the argument from silence in history:
timothymcgrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Argument-from-Silence-Acta-Analytica-Tim-2013.pdf
