Posted on 04/17/2009 9:54:10 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
True. Except that's not what your post said.
Ignorant is also not an ad homonym [sic], it is an accurate assessment of their state of knowledge about the subject. I am, for example, completely ignorant of most sport teams; and would not take umbrage at someone saying “Allmendream is completely ignorant when it comes to sports.”.
True enough, but your post in its entirety basically amounted to "Smart people accept evolution, and stupid or ignorant people still doubt it." So perhaps not an ad hominem exactly, but definitely a mix of appeal to authority, appeal to popularity, and perhaps appeal to flattery.
What doubts?
Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
“fast evolution”
Evolution can always use a little help. You know, Africa was where men first shinnied down trees and started voting for Democrats?
An elderly couple was watching a Discovery Channel special about a West African bush tribe whose men all had penises 24 inches long. When the black male reaches a certain age, a string is tied around his penis and on the other end is a weight. After a while, the weight stretches the penis to 24inches.
Later that evening as the husband was getting out of the shower, his wife looked at him and said, “How about we try the African string-and-weight procedure?” The husband agreed and they tied a string and a weight to his penis.
A few days later, the wife asked the husband, “How is our little tribal experiment coming along?”
“Well, it looks like we’re about half way there,” he replied.
“Wow, you mean it’s grown to 12 inches?”
“No, it’s turned black.”
I would guess the doubts of the individuals who have been fired for expressing them.
The better educated someone is, especially about science, the more likely they are to accept the theory of evolution.
The less educated someone is, especially about science, the more likely they are to reject the theory of evolution.
Those are the facts, and not being able to argue against them, you wish to accuse me of a engaging in logical fallacies while pointing out the ignorance of the idea that evolution is not well accepted in the scientific community when the majority of anybody with a degree or graduate degree in science accepts the theory.
I guess you don’t have any of these peoples names?
No wonder their economy is falling apart when 40% of the population won't worship in The Temple of Darwinism! Rubes!
Then stop teaching Darwood’s fanciful creation myth, and start teaching intelligent design!
Who am I to argue with capital letters?
The better educated someone is, especially about science, the more likely they are to accept the theory of evolution.
The less educated someone is, especially about science, the more likely they are to reject the theory of evolution.
OK, I'll stipulate that for now. So what?
If only they could defend such a notion with evidence and appeals to natural law. Instead defenders of evolution are left making appeals to authority and acting pretentious. If you want to SEEM smart, tell people you believe in evolution. If you want to BE smart, study the evidence and the reasoning pro and con yourself and come to your own conclusions.
Evolution by natural selection has gone the way of the dodo bird. Trying to hang on to it is not going to do science any favors.
Creationists do not believe in “fast evolution.” We believe that the capacity to adapt rapidly to changing environmental conditions (within the confines of each created kind) was frontloaded at the time of creation.
"Zoomolution" might work. Covers the Zoo on the Ark and the Zoom thereafter.
Ah, a man after my own heart... :-)
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/05/iowa_state_professor_who_was_d.html
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-135392804.html
http://www.arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_upicommentary1200.htm
When it comes to evolutionism and other secular humanist ideologies it also means that schools have become cultural indoctrination centers and that ‘the educated’ merely regurgitate what was told to them and they never critiqued or analyzed what they were being fed.
My comments were in regards to the ignorance of 40% of Louisianans who think that evolution is not well accepted in the scientific community.
Pointing out that it IS well accepted in the scientific community, as well as the educated community, is not in any way a mere appeal to authority.
In other words I am not saying you should believe in evolution because it is well accepted in the scientific community. I AM saying that you should believe that evolution is well accepted in the scientific community because it IS well accepted in the scientific community.
Can you follow THAT logic?
The government can't even do brainwashing right... Thank God!
It's kind of a trick question because although the theory has wide acceptance within "the scientific community," it isn't supported by a shred of evidence.
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