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To: DaveLoneRanger
Project Steve. Over 700 "Steves," indicating 70,000 scientists support evolution. ...
Logical fallacy: Argument from Authority (argumentum ad verecundiam).

I'm sure this has beeb explained before (but you've probably forgotten)

It was the Creationists who tried this tactic by gathering and touting a list of "a hundred scientists whoo have doubts about evolution"

"Project Steve" is an exposing of this by showing if it comes to acientific opinion, that 100 doubters aren't that impressive as number (more scientists probably believe in ESP or UFOs than Creationism)

123 posted on 02/20/2006 8:37:09 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (Seriousness lends force to bad arguments. - P J O'Rourke)
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To: Oztrich Boy
I'm sure this has beeb explained before (but you've probably forgotten)

Now what did you expect?
New thread - blank slate... I mean how often have we seen this happen?

126 posted on 02/20/2006 8:43:43 AM PST by BMCDA (If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it,we would be so simple that we couldn't)
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