Logical Fallacies: Appeal to Authority

One doesn't go long in any debating arena without encountering this one either.

Script here:
http://lazyperfectionist1.blogspot.com/2011/02/logical-fallacies-4-appeal-to-...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• logic
• appeal
• to
• authority
• evolution
• creationism
• Behe
• Dawkins
• Hawking
• Eratosthenes
• Copernicus
• peer
• review

[SpoiledLogic]

Awesome.

[lazyperfectionist1]

@SpoiledLogic Glad you liked it.

[robertwc82]

but my mate Joe the cook told me appeal to authority is perfectly valid

[lazyperfectionist1]

@robertwc82 Ah. Satire.

[robertwc82]

@Zuifan ahhhh touche'.

[Zuifan]

@robertwc82 But Joe the Cook is a stupid name, therefor his argument must be stupid!

[robertwc82]

@zach9899 would you care to demonstrate how you know this?

ps. America is entirely populated by baby rapers

[zach9899]

Austrailila is  entirely peopled with criminals.

[TehTacoLord]

Your accusation of a straw man is in itself a strawman. Because what you have said is indeed an ad homenim, undeniably. You employed racism and claimed that his lack of credentials invalidate his argument.

[lazyperfectionist1]

Then the fact being used as a premise can rest upon a concensus among the experts in that particular field, a concensus among the authorities in the pertinent field, not one single authority who might be in that field or not.

SunGOku understands that point. You trolled and you were called a troll for it. This was offered in addition to an argument, not in place of it.

Now back to the subject. Can you point to any factual or logical errors in my video?