re: Conservatism doesn’t always equal Christianity

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That's what you told Hammer of Rod. It's quite clear you were claiming that his trust in scientific experiments were committing the Appeal to Authority logical fallacy.

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Not at all. I was merely pointing out that we take a lot of things on authority. That's it. That was the point. I was not claiming that appealing to authority is a formal logical fallacy, or was fallacious in that case.

This is simply a misunderstanding. We take lots of things on authority that are true. That was the point. BUT, the point was also that we don't know these things from personal experience or direct observation.