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In situations such as this, I always think of the peanut gallery. I may not persuade the person I'm discussing with, but there may well be invisible spectators who can be swayed by sound reasoning. Plus, of course, it can also serve to demonstrate exactly why an appeal to authority is a fallacy.

Hmm, is there a forum that this thread would be more appropriate in? General Discussion, perhaps?

Hi all. I'm on another forum discussing Gerald Shroeder's assertion that the age of the universe can, from certain reference frames, be said to have been 6 days at the creation of the Milky Way. In other words, that the creation account in Genesis is literally correct. Shroeder makes a...