Mormon Expression Podcast #1 Available

[_John Larsen]

To be frank, I doubt Why Me's participation in any podcast would be of much value. There are other believing Mormons who are much more reasonable, open minded, better read than Why Me. I'd recommend throwing out an invitation to Ben Spackman, not only because he is a smart and level headed fellow... but also because... from his standpoint, perhaps the show could give him a chance to advertise the new site that he works for: patheos.com

Other suggestions would be Kevin Barney, Mike Ash, and LifeonaPlate

And Kerry Shirts would be an absolute hoot.

I've got Mike Ash, and his "Shaken Faith Syndrome" on my short list, but I haven't called him yet. But the others are welcome too. I need to give Rodney Meldrum a call, too.

[_Mercury]

For after all, it has not been proven false. And that is the problem with people who have left.

Its been proven not to be true. Let me know when you can prove a negative.

[_Mercury]

Jesus H. Christ. For as long as I've participated on this board and read your posts, you've been trotting out this lame tripe. Poster after poster has explained to you the error in your "prove it false" assertion. You don't listen. You don't care to listen. You don't want to learn. You're only here to read your own words and think you're providing something useful to the conversation, which you most definitely are not. You're the pathetic one here, why me. If Shades didn't discourage us from telling other posters to take a hike, I'd most likely do so after every one of your posts. Poo-poo head.

Here is my point: those who leave the LDS church can not leave the church alone because the LDS church has not been conclusively to be proven false. Now if the LDS church were proven false by sound evidence (ie, a manucript with rough draft markings in Sidney's hand) the church would fall and be proven false. Now if that were to happen, people would go through a withdrawal sympton and then eventually fade into the sunset. But since the LDS church has not been proven false, people such as the guys on that podcase can not leave it alone.

If the LDS church was proven false conclusively without a question of doubt, the subject of these posts on this board would be much different than they are today. Likewise for the men on the podcast.

Most posts focus on instilling doubt in people's minds because the church has not been proven false. Likewise for the podcast.

You are foolish:

The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam ("appeal to ignorance" [1]), argument by lack of imagination, or negative evidence, is a logical fallacy in which it is claimed that a premise is true only because it has not been proven false, or is false only because it has not been proven true.
The argument from personal incredulity, also known as argument from personal belief or argument from personal conviction, refers to an assertion that because one personally finds a premise unlikely or unbelievable, the premise can be assumed to be false, or alternatively that another preferred but unproven premise is true instead.
Both arguments commonly share this structure: a person regards the lack of evidence for one view as constituting proof that another view is true. The types of fallacies discussed in this article should not be confused with the reductio ad absurdum method of argument, in which a valid logical contradiction of the form "A and not A" is used to disprove a premise.