1. Schizophrenic patients hear disembodied voices that torment them. (That is a secular fact) 2. But voices cannot exist without beings that can speak. 3. So, the best explanation for the disembodied voices that schizophrenic patients hear is an invisible being. 4. Therefore, the devil exists/ or evil spirits exist. (Since the voices causes them to do crime or sin.) The argument above is an abductive argument. An abductive argument is pertains to an inference to the best explanation. There is no reason for why we cannot explain the origin of the voices by means of demons, the devil, or evil spirits. For the hypothesis is not worse than the hypothesis that pertains to mental illness.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 12:39:39 +0000
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