Resistance

GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYExample 1:Thesis: God exists.Demand: Verifiable proof.Support Thesis: God has characteristics which cannot be conceived bythe means and methods of this world.Thanks to the supportive thesis, the principal thesis is armor-platedfor all time against scientific attempts at refutation. By so doing one hasremoved God from the realm of science. Theology is therefore not ascience.The second example follows the same principle, although it is not ofa theological nature.Example 2:Thesis: Little green men from outer space exist.Demand: Verifiable proof.Support Thesis: These extraterrestrials are technologically so muchsuperior to us that they can completely elude our effortsto prove their existence.In both cases we are dealing with logical immunizations of the theories,which is an impermissible method in science. Perhaps you are nowasking what this has to do with our subject. In response I give you aquotation by Simone Veil, the first president of the European Parliamentand an Auschwitz survivor. In response to revisionist demands forverifiable evidence for the existence of homicidal gas chambers (especiallyfrom Prof. Robert Faurisson) she said: 92“Everyone knows that the Nazis destroyed these gas chambersand systematically eradicated all the witnesses.”If we put this statement into the same pattern as the two examples Ihave given above, it looks like this:Example 3:Thesis:Gas chambers existed.Demand:Verifiable proof.Support Thesis: All evidence has been destroyed.Subsequent Demand: Verifiable proof of the destruction of evidenceand of its content.The consequence of this logical crutch, which was intended to be anauxiliary theory, is, however, that the argumentative situation is now92France Soir, 7. Mai 1983, p. 47.71