atheism, philosophy and emotional immaturity

[jstrodel]

But those factors of the relevance and rigor of the authority are part of the argument from authority, MysticKnight. Someone could make an argument from authority to a church that had a history of 2000 years of giving authoritative pronouncements that shaped entire civilizations. That would very likely to be a good argument. The awareness of the nature of the authority is what makes it likely to be correct.