| Authority of the Select Few |
Logical Fallacy of the Authority of the Select FewThe Logical Fallacy of the Authority of the Select Few occurs when the evidence is said to be best interpreted by a group that is said to be elite or in the know. It may be true that there is a select group that is in the know; however, if they are in the know, then they can surely show the process by which they think that they know. Examples of the Logical Fallacy of the Authority of the Select Few“The majority of secular scientists believe in Darwinian evolution.” That is probably true, but that is not proof of anything. There is a lot of intimidation in the science fields, so it would be hard to tell. Those in political power do seem to have this belief system. The Big-Bang-Billions-of-Years-No-Flood-Molecules-to-Man story is a claim about what happened in the past. Fossils don’t reflect many very small changes between families/kinds of living things. No one has ever observed this happening. Where is the evidence beyond assumptions and storytelling? Here, especially, we find the limitations imposed because (outside of Divine revelation) the human mind is limited to making conclusions based on either infinite regress, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This is the problem known as Agrippa's Trilemma, 
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