APPEALING TO GOD AS AN APPEAL TO AUTHORITY:
An Appeal to Authority is a fallacy that follows a form similar to such:
Person A is proposed to be an authority on Subject X.
Person A makes a statement (Claim Z) that is about Subject X.
Therefore, Claim Z is true.
The fallacy occurs when, in fact, Person A is not an authority on Subject X at all.I
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