PZ Myers recounts a visit his blog had from a bunch of Hovind fanatics.
I can summarize their argument very briefly:
- Your ability to reason comes from god.
- Therefore, if you use reason, you prove the existence of god.
- If you use reason to disprove god, you actually prove god.
- If you claim any of their arguments are logically fallacious, you are using reason, which comes from god, therefore you prove them correct.
Maddening, isn’t it? But at least they’re being consistently self-contradictory. Let’s look at their argument and see what it tells us.