Do you believe in Centaurs?

audience: ut students and would be scholars.
Tone: satirical
Persuasion: not to believe everything you see/read
All three rhetorical strategies are used

We all know that centaurs are mythological creatures that don't exist. But, we all take what a museum and/or scientist says as fact. Conflict arises when the two clash as ethos and logos are blended together. Let's face it, the damn thing looks real. Stained horse and human bones look the same. The vertebra align. The skull is even convincing. Rocks and dirt inside the exhibit make it look fresh out of the ground while the wood/glass cover makes it look legit. As it is staged in a well-known university, and in a library for that mater, ethos is thrown at the reader. Why would a museum lie to me? Hell, even our pathos is tested since we all deep down want to believe in things bigger than us.
But then we find out it's not real. We feel used and joked on, humiliated in our nieve approach. However, from all this turmoil a solid message arises: Don't believe all you see and read. Instantly the logos fires the synapses in our brain causing us to think and wonder. We look around the room, wondering what else might be a lie; our eyes become fine tooth combs. And as they make their way back to the "centaur", a new sense of respect is found: we our now true scholars...