Argument from Personal Incredulity

Evan Sheldon - Argument from Personal Incredulity 
An argument from personal incredulity is a logical fallacy that arises when someone decides that a topic is invalid or did not happen, only based on the fact that they cannot understand that topic. If something is hard for someone to believe or comprehend personally, it does not mean that it is untrue or false as there are people with greater understandings of different topics that have facts and knowledge to support their claims. Also, if there is an absence of proof or truth, the situation or topic is not automatically false; therefore, when a situation or topic is deemed as false due to lack of proof, the “argument from personal incredulity” fallacy is being utilized. This fallacy is often used when dealing with topics in creationism such as the big bang. People begin to disregard the theory entirely because it is too difficult for them to understand, and since it is too complex for them, the whole theory must be false. An example of where this fallacy can been seen is in the american sitcom titled Ghosted starring Adam Scott and Craig Robinson. In the show, Robinson plays a ex-missing persons detective that disregards the idea that aliens exist due to his incapability to understand how that could be possible, and his reasoning is coming from an argument from personal incredulity. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXX9koKOkTs 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw-oVrvIynM