An argument from ignorance is just a sneaky way to give the illusion that speculations are real.

An argument from ignorance is just a sneaky way to give the illusion that speculations are real.

Skeptics use arguments from ignorance a lot. It’s just a sneaky way to give the illusion that the skeptic’s speculations are real. An argument from ignorance fallacy often takes the form of a question (known as an ad ignorantiam question fallacy). The fallacy isn’t obvious because it’s implied rather than stated. This fallacy can deceive naive students in universities. The skeptic is suggesting that you must be able to answer the question or they are right and you are wrong.

For example, an atheist may ask why there is evil in God’s creation if the Creator is good. We know God gave humans and angels free will, so they can rebel against God. We could say that it may be that God is willing to endure a few thousand years of rebellion to bring His creation to a better state than what existed in the Garden of Eden, but we don’t know that for certain. We don’t know anything God hasn’t specifically revealed.

But our relationship with God isn’t based on knowing all the answers. That’s why the skeptic’s question doesn’t prove what the skeptic thinks it proves.

We know God through Jesus. God leads, teaches, and corrects us moment by moment every day. The Skeptic bases all skeptical unbeliefs on speculations and dogmatic statements. If we don’t have an answer to a question, that doesn’t undermine our relationship with Christ.

If the skeptic can’t answer a question, it doesn’t disprove the skeptic’s dogmatic statements. The skeptic may claim evolution is a fact or that God can’t be known. If you ask the skeptic how the skeptic knows what the skeptic claims, the skeptic can answer, but the skeptic can’t prove his or her answer is true. The skeptic can never give a rational answer based on absolute truth. Truth is absolute by definition. Without truth, rational thought is impossible. The fact that the skeptic can’t answer doesn’t prove the skeptic wrong. It just proves that the skeptic’s dogmatic statements have no substance.

If you know Jesus Christ, He is absolute. That relationship with Christ is real and absolute. A skeptic is then left with the ridiculous position of claiming you aren’t experiencing what you are experiencing or else claiming that Almighty God can’t communicate clearly or overcome our fleshly weakness to make His revelation known to us. The skeptic has no foundation for thought. You do since you know Jesus, the ONLY Source of all wisdom, knowledge, understanding, love, and goodness.