On May 30, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
> My belief in the
> existence of Jupiter, and my ideas about its nature,
> are based entirely on things I have heard from people
> I recognize as authorities. It is no different,
> subjectively, from the attitude of a medieval peasant
> taking the words of a cleric as authoritative.
Except that you're believing the work of scientists, who've spent centuries researching and testing their findings, while the cleric is just repeating something he heard or thought and which could never be tested or proved.
Doug