(September 25, 2012 at 9:36 pm)Blackrook Wrote:Wow. Defending argument from authority by committing the fallacy of appeal to popularity.(September 25, 2012 at 9:25 pm)Tino Wrote: Yes your father is wrong. But to understand why you'll need to do more than simply offer an argument from authority, which is a logical fallacy.
Yes, it would seem that every atheist has that arrow in his quiver: that every argument from authority is a logical fallacy.
And yet, how many of us make important decisions based on authority?
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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).
"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).
