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If you want to argue for example, that "all cells have a nucleus", and you name a PhD biologist who makes that same claim, and all PhD biologists concur with the named expert biologist, then your appeal to authority is valid. This serves as an example not only of a valid appeal to authority...

Just that we're all Christians, even though we disagree in our ecclesiology. Not like how He made the fossils. And all the stars and galaxies. And the fertile soil that bedded the Garden of Eden. I don't understand what you're saying, can you elaborate or try a different tack? I will...

Nope. Whenever you argue for an idea while naming as your source an authentic expert in that domain, who also claims what you are claiming, and that expert teaches what is uniformly taught by all the other authentic experts in that domain, that is a valid appeal to authority. The important...

Begging the question and invalid appeals to authority are tough to distinguish from valid arguments.

And also, why are you under the false impression that appeals to authority are ipso facto fallacious? Because you constantly appeal to the Bible's authority is all, to God's authority. Obviously you're wrong. Otherwise you couldn't appeal to either the authority of God or of the Bible without...

Oh it's so sad when someone who is clearly not mentally diminished fails to try hard. Yes I do know what begging the question is, for example, when you hold a pet theory, and an idea conflicts with it, and you reject that idea because and only because it conflicts with your pet theory, that is...

You're always welcome at Catholic (and I'm sure also at Orthodox) Mass, just don't receive Communion unless you're actually Catholic or Orthodox, and in full communion with the Church. Lots of monks were and are Catholic or Orthodox.

You are begging the question because of what your own personal theory is, you want to defend it, you've supposed that it's true, and so of course all the fossils must be from previously living things, even though you don't have the slightest biblical evidence consistent with dinosaurs. I'm...

But there is the vigil Mass, and Easter is celebrated also the night before. Basically if your local parish offers it you can go to Mass every Saturday and fulfill your weekly obligation (when the obligation is in force, which it hasn't been since some time in March round these parts (Boston)...

If someone told me that it affects their life and in a positive way as regards their Christian (Catholic) faith, then I can't think of a reason why I'd doubt them is all. I might not feel that way, and I might feel that way, but regardless, I still wouldn't immediately think that they're wrong...

No. Dead implies first there was life, which I reject. They're just fossils. Objects. They tell a story, they along with all the other physical evidence tells a story that it took billions of years, and so very many stupendously unlikely events all happening one right after the other, with...

I look at it as permission to disbelieve in evolution and "billions of years", because I find them spectacularly improbable, and I see no evidence that's inconsistent with the six days theory (Genesis taken plainly). You don't get that permission in schools, or in general company, political...

It can't be proven, but it can easily be demonstrated to be far more fanciful a notion than that there simply is a God and that He is the source of life. I heard the answer to the entropy challenge, they say that lifeforms aren't violating entropy somehow, it was a little over my head but...

Well of course! Yeah, God made them. Also, who cares?

Oh well. The Supreme Court didn't grant cert because they didn't even feel the case had enough merit to hear it. Even though it's unsatisfying, at least it was brought before them, in an original jurisdiction attempt. They said no. I'm not a lawyer and I'm not qualified to render any sort of...

Not with me. I believe it is the youngest as is biblically possible. I believe that God made the earth to be perfect for mankind, and that He made it with the fossils included. I believe He made the universe to be perfect for the earth, and He made it with as many stars and nebulas and dark...

But we do all believe that the Lord Jesus died, was buried, and that He rose again on the third day.

And, Why does the story as told "in the rocks" (fossils, sedimentary layers, dating techniques, etc.) suggest that the universe is "governed by chance, blind fate, anonymous necessity", if it is instead governed by God? This is the trouble with this text in the Catechism imo. Let me set out...

Just to underscore how non-communist the pope is, because he's not suggesting changing Church teaching, here are some excerpts of pertinent /relevant Church teaching: 1901 . . . The diversity of political regimes is morally acceptable, provided they serve the legitimate good of the communities...

Or, I engaged with what you wrote there. Which is the point of an anonymous internet discussion forum. If you mean that Christ's kingdom in all its fullness, when He comes again, will dispatch with all the nations of man at that point (the new heaven and the new earth), then sure. Otherwise...