4. How does the author's discussion of Paul McCartney and René Descartes contribute to the
development of ideas in the text (Paragraphs 8-9)?
A. It shows how new and influential ideas can come from dreams.
B. It proves that intelligent people tend to have more complex dreams.
C. It demonstrates the importance of trying to understand our dreams.
D. It supports the theory that your brain is organizing information as you sleep.

Was an early church leader as well as a philosopher of his day

How can you paraphrase this, this is about golden age fallacies.these are all rational people who know that older is not necessarily better, but many are taken in by this fallacy and seem no longer able to reason with any degree of reliability

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.