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Originally Posted by pelathais
Well, when someone makes a special plea or provides a CV with academic credentials, that person is making an argument themselves - and "argument from authority" - they are making a claim that they are an "authority" to some degree on the matter under discussion based upon the degrees and other awards that they hold.
So far, the men whose arguments are under discussion lately have come up short when it comes to the degrees they have touted.
There are many others who have been discussed recently - Talmadge French, DKB and many others. These guys with authentic degrees, however, don't seem to make the sorts of outrageous claims that others with "exaggerated" degree credentials have made.
One exception - in my own observation - has been Arlo M. He does hold a valid and earned doctorate in chemical engineering from an accredited university. He has however made the most outlandish and unreasonable claims with regard to the creation/evolution debate. He peddles claims that most of the Young Earth crowd abandoned decades ago.
All of the rest of the guys making outrageous claims all have exaggerated their credentials.
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He therefore enrolled Charles
Darwin at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1827 for a Bachelor of Arts degree as the qualification required before taking a specialised
divinity course
Darwin's cv from wiki.
So the heavy duty degree in divinity makes him a better preacher than any of these Pentecostals.
He also is not a scientist.
Charles Darwin lied in the Voyage of the HMS Beagle writings. He was Not the ships naturalist. You have to be A medical doctor to be the naturalist. He was a medical student dropout.
Darwin was not a scientist. He was a fiction writer. Story teller.
Alberto Gore is puffing himself up as a scientist also.
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