(September 25, 2012 at 9:47 pm)Blackrook Wrote:(September 25, 2012 at 9:44 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Wow. Defending argument from authority by committing the fallacy of appeal to popularity.
Wow, I seem to being committing all sorts of logical errors today.
Please explain why you are allowed to crack open a science book and read it and believe what you read without conducting your own experiments to find out if it is true.
I don't just "believe" it. I evaluate it, compare to alternatives and figure out which makes more sense.
My ignore list
"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).
