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To: bvw
Seculatist education -- a key part of which is G-d-free evolution and scince -- produces far more ninnies.

You mean "secularist." Anyway, it's the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. There were other things going on in the 60s and 70s, you know.

1,976 posted on 05/30/2005 6:52:57 PM PDT by VadeRetro ( Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro; PatrickHenry
I suspect the beautiful as she is brilliant Kathy Martin could have contributed to the decline in SAT scores in the sixties; from her biography:

"Kathy earned her Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education in 1967,...."
[emphasis added]
1,977 posted on 05/30/2005 7:03:58 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: VadeRetro
Anyway, it's the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Darn, I was going to blaim Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech in 1963 as the obvious cause for dropping SAT scores. I mean, obviously students started daydreaming instead of learning anything.
1,978 posted on 05/30/2005 7:07:36 PM PDT by anguish (while science catches up.... mysticism!)
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To: VadeRetro
"You mean "secularist." Anyway, it's the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. There were other things going on in the 60s and 70s, you know."

Dam* you. Every time I think I can one up a creationist with a swift kick in the logical fallacy someone (you) beats me to it.

1,980 posted on 05/30/2005 7:19:40 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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