[split] Critical Thinking Skills

[jstrodel]

It is not fallacious to appeal to authority, people do it all the time.

I nominate this post for the hall of shame, since this person, and the people that said yes to it don't realize that what I said is true.

Do you know the way a university functions? It is through each discipline mastering all the details of all the others, right? No. It is through appealing to authority. I am even granting that a university has some sort of special value in conveying truth, which is very debatable. A lot of the stuff that comes out of it is just politics.

This is not even freshmen level college stuff and you guys are getting excited about it.

I want to cry so hard because atheists are so brainwashed, another person said that "common sense is the same as empiricism".

They are brainwashed. They don't even have a 4 year degree in science or philosophy and they don't believe in God because they don't realize that science can't prove or disprove God's existence.

It makes me want to cry. I feel so hurt and messed up inside. I love you all so much. You don't even realize how much.

Seriously. I wish I could open your eyes so you could see what I see. The minds darkened by an unproven faith in science, a science that is rapidly changing. Most of you don't know who Karl Popper is, or realize how fast scientific concepts change.

I want to cry I am so angry at the person who taught you these things. Taught you that an argument from authority was a fallacy. I would break their neck, the person that told these lies and poured this poison into your minds.

The greatest philosophers and scientists in history have been Christian. The thing is, people tolerate claims like "an argument from authority is fallacious" because they don't want any authority in their lives. People accept it.

I wish I could take away all the lies out of your minds and show you what I see.

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IIIIII CAAANNNTTTT HELLLPPP ITTTTT!!!! PLEAAAASSSEEEEEEE SOMEONE STOP ME!!!??

That Christian love.

Yes, it is Christian love. That is God's heart. God hates lies. God hates it when people say "an argument from authority is fallacious" and a 15 year old reads it on the computer and thinks "if my parents say something, it is fallacious to accept what they say unless they prove it to me". God hates people that poison the minds of people.

I say these things because I want people to repent. I want them to leave their wickedness and stop lying. It is one thing to debate atheism, it is another thing to lie, or to be so incompetent in debating that you do not even understand basic terms like the nature of an argument from authority.

You are sowing rebelliousness and skepticism into peoples minds. You will lead people down harmful paths.