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Draw a line from each numbered arg to its closest analog among the lettered arguments.

1. Astrology came from mythology. Mythology has been decisively debunked in recent years. And so, since mythology has been shown to be untrue and unscientific, it follows that astrology is untrue and unscientific. 

2. Environmentalists claim that the world is losing it's capacity to absorb the effects of energy prospecting, development and production, but the best research by all the best universities proves that the world is a long way from running out of energy, so the environmentalists are wrong. 

3. Over ten years ago we finally succeeded in abolishing sex education in our schools. We did so just in time. In the last decade we have seen a slow and steady rise in the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies among our children. These frightening statistics make it imperative that we make sure sex education is never again allowed in our schools. 

4. Americans who failed to support the invasion of Iraq committed a serious moral wrong, because the invasion was extremely dangerous for the soldiers who took part in it, and several were killed. Since they were risking their lives, Americans should have supported the President and his decision to go to war, even if they didn't believe that the invasion was justified. 
A. Sports fans should support vertical bowling, because the bowlers who hurl bowling balls straight up in the air are risking their lives to entertain us. Given that several air bowlers have been killed by their own balls, sports fans should support the Bowling Comissioner and his decision to start an air bowling league, even if they don't think that air bowling is much fun to watch 

B. I can prove absolutely that the windshield washer fluid container is full, and will stay full for a long, long time. So you're absolutely wrong when you say we're close to running out of gas, and so we have no need to get off the freeway and start looking for a filling station.

C. Since we stopped pumping oxygen into that sunken submarine the sailors have gotten sicker and sicker. This is a very serious situation which we must address immediately by making sure that there is absolutely no oxygen in that sunken submarine.

D. Modern chemistry is a discipline that is in serious trouble. It has been conclusively proved that chemistry historically developed out of alchemy, the futile search for the "philosopher's stone" that would turn lead to gold and confer immortality. So chemistry is futile, since it developed from something futile.