(August 31, 2018 at 4:48 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Like when bishop Samuel Wilberforce dismissed Darwin's theory of evolution by saying to Thomas Huxley that he certainly didn't have grandparents as apes. Like something is shameful and too indecent to be true. And, indeed, Huxley was recorded of retorting: “[A] man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would be a MAN, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.”
I mean have you noticed it, and similar situations? Or maybe it all falls under The Argument From Authority? Or does it fall under Ad hominem fallacy? Or is it indeed an Argument from pompousness?
I could see argument from authority. Or perhaps a red herring.
