(August 24, 2012 at 11:06 pm)Atom Wrote:(August 24, 2012 at 10:26 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Fallacy of appeal to majority, authority, and consensus.I think I'm on more solid ground appealing to a near unanimity of peer reviewed academic scholars on the testimony of Bart Ehrman as a hostile witness than you are citing yourself as your own authority.
I'm looking at what I wrote I can't see where I myself employed appeal to authority. I was merely giving you a little background to the debate. Care to be specific?
How do you know you're on "solid ground" if you never have listened to both (or more) sides of a debate?
Quote:Fallacy of appeal to majority, authority, and consensus, right back at you, my friend.![]()
And now you're committing Tu quoque.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).