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To: PhilipFreneau
If you are anything but a hypocrit you will be vehemently supporting the teaching of intelligent design.

In rhetoric class, not science class.

In science class, all that's needed is the fact that *any* possible observation is consistent with ID, therefore it is not a scientific theory. (It is unable to make predictions). This is in contrast to evolution, which makes specific, testable predictions.

The students will also learn that ID/creationists do *no* research - all they do is attack standard biology.

In rhetoric class, the students can use ID/creationism as a case study in dishonesty - arguments from made-up "quotations", misleading, out-of-context "quotations", the fallacy of equivocation, the fallacy of using inappropriate authority, and so forth.

391 posted on 02/15/2004 11:02:43 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
In rhetoric class, not science class

Nice point and score.

430 posted on 02/17/2004 3:01:48 AM PST by Ophiucus
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