Yes, though it stands to figure that a Council member (a less stupid one) might argue that isn't it their duty to help a human civilization have the means to fight against the potential threat of the Cylons that might cross their ways? And Adama has to be just guessing to assume that Earth will be capable of helping them in their fight on the technological level.
Of course the matter of whether Earth is something that can help them or not is a question Adama asks Iblis (got to bring this back to the episode at hand!) during their first meeting which he avoids answering, and curiously Adama never presses him on it again. This is another part of the episode that could use a tweak, in which Adama presses Iblis to answer the question whether Earth can help them fight against the Cylons and Iblis tells him that in order to learn the answer, they must put their trust in him.
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"They hate us with every fiber of their being. We love....freedom, independence, the right to question. To them it is an alien way of living."-The non-myopic wisdom of Commander Adama, "Saga Of A Star World"
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."-Ronald Reagan
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