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To: StJacques
... there is no more bogus web site on the entire internet than answersingenesis.com

It's pretty bad, no doubt about it. But -- wouldja believe it? -- there are far worse. In my service on the evolution threads, I've seen most of them. At least answersingenesis has this article:

Arguments we think creationists should NOT use.

All the rest of that website is, like all creationist websites, utterly worthless. (And creationists still use all of the "don't use" arguments anyway.)

586 posted on 01/23/2005 7:08:04 PM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry; StJacques
I like the arguments Creationist should not use article from AnswersinGenesis. I also like this one from rae.org

Top Bonehead Arguments of Evolution"

Top Bonehead Arguments of Evolution

Author: Doug Sharp
Subject: Creation-Evolution Overviews
Date: 12/1/1999

  1. Argument by definition: "Creation is outside of science."
  2. Argument by appeal to authority or intellectual snobbery: "All those scientists can't be wrong."
  3. Argument by lining up ducks in a row (homology). This is like space travelers visiting earth in year 3000 finding cars in a junkyard and creating an evolutionary sequence from them.
  4. If you can't explain it, give it a scientific name (evolutionist fairy dust).
  5. Arguing that if you have described a process, you have explained its origin.
  6. Assuming what you want to prove (tautology).
  7. Mistaking devolution for evolution. (Devolution is like a nail spontaneously turning to rust. Evolution is like rust spontaneously turning into a nail).
  8. Selection (eliminating features) produces new features.
  9. If an evolutionist can come up with an ad-hoc argument that seems to explain something, it refutes the creationist explanation.
  10. Punk-eek (Punctuated equilibrium). "Evolution happened too fast to find transitional forms in the fossil record."
  11. The straw man (creating a misconception or false image of what creationists believe). "Creationists believe that the earth is flat."
  12. Creationists who sell books are “money-grubbers” motivated by profit.
  13. Comparing Christians to Islamic fundamentalists and the Taliban.
  14. “Creationists don’t publish in the top evolutionary science journals.” (Hmmm…I wonder why?)
  15. Teaching creation violates the separation of church and state. (As if teaching evolutionary doctrine doesn’t.)

All of these arguments are either patently false or so ridiculous they don’t merit the time spent to answer them. If a person resorts to arguments like these to bolster evolutionary theory, their thinking is so out-of-whack foundationally that it would take months to straighten it out.

593 posted on 01/23/2005 9:14:01 PM PST by DannyTN
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