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To: betty boop
WT: ...[dishonesty and deception] are the tools of the anti-evolutionists.
BB: Sheesh, WildTurkey! (There you go again.)

WT may have expressed it in a harsh manner, but he is pretty much correct in his assertions - at least in these threads. I don't believe that every anti-evolutionist uses these tactics, because some are just simply misinformed and don't know any better.

A prime example of these tactics is quote mining. Darwin's writing style of posing rhetorical questions and then answering them makes him a prime target of this tactic.

Another example are the faulty probability calculations that prove that evolution is a statistical impossibility. Even after these have been debunked, the same posters use them over and over.

An really good example of deception in this very thread is the use of a faulty population growth calculation to disprove an old earth. It was supposed to show that if humans had been around longer than 6,000 years than the number of people on the planet would be in the trillions. Unfortunately her own formula resulted in a population of 19 trillion if a 6,000 year value was used. Even though this and other faults with her approach have been pointed out, she continues to use it as "Evidence". Currently, no other anti-evolutionist has called her on it.

Evolutionists will correct other evolutionists if they post incorrect or shaky evidence. Creationists never really do. In the above example, another creationist posted " I like that! They [evolutionists] are forced to ignore so many things." in response to the population calculation post. Once the calculation and approach had been shown to be faulty, that poster never corrected his "cheerleading".

1,226 posted on 02/01/2005 11:41:31 AM PST by JeffAtlanta
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To: JeffAtlanta
Unfortunately her own formula resulted in a population of 19 trillion if a 6,000 year value was used.

Thank you for noticing. I posted the 19 trillion number and none of the creationists responded. When I asked for replies, I got silence, or "I'm too busy".

If exponential growth gives ridiculous numbers for both 6000 and 30,000 years, then something is wrong with the underlying assumptions.

Another clear case of creationists being able to do arithmetic, but unable to understand when and why.

Interestingly, it was the impossibility of exponentional population growth that started Darwin wondering about natural selection.

1,277 posted on 02/01/2005 1:16:42 PM PST by js1138
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