To: Sopater
I find the Argument from Authority one of the weakest arguments in this debate, especially when the authorities are mostly lawyers who had no knowledge of the enormous advances in science that have taken place since they wrote.
5 posted on
05/28/2008 6:37:14 AM PDT by
jalisco555
("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
To: jalisco555
As CS Lewis states, 99% of what we “know” is based on “argument from authority”.
Do you know that the Arctic is cold? How? Have you been there, or are you basing that knowledge on “authority”?
14 posted on
05/28/2008 6:58:37 AM PDT by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: jalisco555
I find the Argument from Authority one of the weakest arguments in this debate.
Why is an ideological argument from a scientist any stronger than an ideological argument from a lawyer? Even with all of the advances we've made in science over the last 200 years, none have "scientifically" advanced the ToE.
33 posted on
05/28/2008 8:52:05 AM PDT by
Sopater
(A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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