atheism, philosophy and emotional immaturity

[CapnAwesome]

It has come to my attention that many atheists believe that the argument from authority is essentially a fallacious argument. I am not going to argue that the argument from authority is, in essence, a fallacy. That is too obvious of a point to make. Of course the argument from authority is a real argument and not a blatant logical fallacy (and of course some arguments from authority are better than others and some are completely fallacious).

I'm kind of late to this thread, but I do have to point out that he actually used a logical fallacy to try to claim that the argument from authority is not a logical fallacy. It's called Begging the Question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question You don't get to just say 'it's too obvious' and thus avoid having to prove your first assertion. Since you never showed that the Argument from Authority isn't a logical fallacy and rather you just asserted it, the rest of your premise crumbles rather quickly.

Try this one and maybe you'll understand why the Argument from Authority is a logical fallacy. The Argument from Authority is a logical fallacy because renown philosophy professor Alex Byrne says that it's a logical fallacy.