You: To be perfectly frank, it doesn't matter a whit how intelligent or knowledgeable these men were. Intelligent men have been wrong before and will be wrong again. For example, Albert Einstein inserted a universal constant into one of his theories that he later realized was not necessary. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was a brilliant man and yet he believed until his dying day that there was physical evidence of fairies in England.

As a matter of fact, we may wish to distrust the arguments of people who are much more intelligent than ourselves, because they will be able to deceive us more easily than less intelligent persons would be able to.

Aaron: I take it that you are not going to dismiss these men's arguments just because they were written by men who would be able to convince you of their point even if they were mistaken.

You: Not at all, but I am not going to accept their arguments without hearing them first, either.

Aaron: Fair enough. On that note, let me introduce my first argument.