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To: VadeRetro
But you already used the tu quoque fallacy yourself here.

While it may be "tu quoque" (translation: you also), it is nonetheless true and clearly not a fallacy.

Note: The Pee Wee Herman technique is not “tu quoque”

Note2: Latin is a dead language, most of us speak English

192 posted on 09/25/2003 5:22:59 PM PDT by Last Visible Dog
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To: Last Visible Dog
While it may be "tu quoque" (translation: you also), it is nonetheless true and clearly not a fallacy.

It's absurd to try to pretend that mainstream science does the kind of selective editing of its data that ICR or that Creation-Evolution Headlines site of bondserv's routinely does. Creationists, who do essentially no research of their own, parasitize upon on how science puts all the data out there, allowing the creationists to pick and choose from a sea of contrary data a few things here and there (like the 14C noise floor) to try to spin.

The situation is not symmetrical at all. Science routinely demands high levels of scholarship and punishes failure to meet the standards. Creationism and ID continue to assume a right to distort as needed. Gish and Morris with their reputations for dishonesty can never dream of being published in a real peer-reviewed journal. (Not to mention goodseed's favorite, "Dr. Dino" Hovind.)

201 posted on 09/25/2003 5:37:04 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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