Are Weak and Incorrect Arguments Acceptable?

Continuing the discussion from Torley on The Resurrection: Take Two:

For the record, I absolutely do criticize apologists for putting forward weak arguments. If you haven’t noticed, I’m spending quite a bit of time arguing against bad apologetic arguments for God. Here are a few examples:

  1. Which Irreducible Complexity?

  2. Computing the Functional Information in Cancer

In my view, this is an issue of trustworthiness. No one should put forward weak or false arguments. Anyone who knowingly does this should not be trusted. This goes both for people on my “side” and those who are not. The fact that we argue for the “right” conclusions is not a valid or correct or acceptable reason for putting forward a bad argument.

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