Reply to article by: Stuart Grey <stuart.grey@nospam.comcast.net>
Date written: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:57:26 -0700
MsgID:<RpidncoZLb3qIqfeRVn-sw@comcast.com>

What a sad, sad, sad, sad  joke!

A newly formed vested-interest organization known as The Campaign
to Defend the Constitution is sending a lettero all 50 U.S.
governors signed by Nobel laureates and other leading scientists,
calling on them to ensure that science classes in their states teach
evolution and do not allow any curricula based on intelligent design.

LOL! They're making an appeal to authority!!

How ironic. Of course, this is lost on most of you. Appeals to authority 
have been considered a logical error since it was shown that Aristotle, 
considered an absolute authority for centuries, was full of shit about 
many things. (Objects in motion come to rest, heavy objects fall faster 
than lighter objects, and so on.)

"Teach science! We're authorities, we say so!"

Scientists tried appealing to reason with believers but believers didn't want to
reason, so the scientists also tried an appeal to politics because believers
will listen to politics. But in no way, shape, or form are scientists using
their appeal to politics as an appeal to authority because it isn't a reason, it
is a plead.

It really doesn't matter since the believers are bound to lose, again, just as
they always have in the past ever since the Scope's Monkey Trial. The problem
just is that believers are sore losers so they keep trying to shove their stupid
nonsense down everyone's throat anyway.

The Sage

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