I listened to this supposed scholar who use the logical argument that if a teacher is to be hired and out of three candidates being interviewed one believes that 2+2=3, the other believes that 2+2=4, and yet the other says that 2+2=5, which one would should be hired? Now you are undoubtedly asking: what is the argument being used for or against? And, of course you assume that the middle teacher would be the logical choice. What if I tell you that this interview is for a teacher of religion? Would you still choose the guy with the most logical answer? Now I tell you that the supposed scholar doing the hiring called himself a religious scholar (take a guess what religion it was). Of course it would not really matter which religion I was talking about!
Humans have been using semi-logic to explain ignorance forever, it makes the guy doing the explaining sound like he really knows what the hell he's talking about. Not everyone can rebut logical arguments effectively. Those who can are simply accused of ignorance of the issue or heresy. At that point all real is logic is diminished and people even shy away from thinking logically for fear of being demonized.
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