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Thread #155013 Message #3646721
Posted By: Bill D
30-Jul-14 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Church joins real world
Subject: RE: BS: Church joins real world
Pete-" but that seems like an appeal to authority, rather than engaging the argument....is.nt that some sort of fallacy ?.
Appeal to authority IS a fallacy... appeal to a reasonable analysis of scientific data does not involve 'authority'. YOU appeal to authority... all you have is generations of theologians with unquestioning minds reciting vaguely similar versions of the same apocryphal tale and telling you to 'believe' their version.
Science changes when new evidence appears... sometimes too slowly, but NOT by authority/