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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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Eliseus, has it occurred to you to try judging an argument on its merits and not whether or not it comes from a "credible source" ? I suppose that would imply some sort of intellectual effort on your part.
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Are you saying that Einstein was wrong?!! Obviously Einstein was smarter than any of us and therefore it should be good enough reason for anyone to believe in god. Who are you to question his opinion on the merits of his argument?! He was math genius after all.
(sarcasm)
Argumentum ad verecundiam or argument from authority. A logical fallacy. One does not have to be very knowledgeable at all in philosophy to understand this. What Einstein or Newton or Shakespeare believed is not at all persuasive in and of itself. If they present an argument, that argument will be judged by its own merits. As the quoted poster put succinctly.