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To: metmom

Oh stop your whining. The person that was making the assertion is making up fairy tales. My statements were in direct response to that. He or she was following the God of the Gaps strategy and attempting to make the objector verify the entirety of another theory instead of simply support an objection. This is intellectually dishonesty of the highest order. My part in these threads isn’t to support a theory but to provide objections to Young Earth Creationism. I don’t personally hold that the fanatics and their Young Earth Creationism is mutually exclusive with evolution, though I do feel that evolution is thousands of times more probable if they are evaluated independently.

If I objected to someones interpretation that the Earth is flat, I wouldn’t feel obliged to personally explain all of physics to that individual. Pointing him or her in the correct direction is enough. And I did that.

What is your complaint now? Is it that I’m not your personal teacher? Or is it that when you make a fundamental error in your reasoning and believe fairy tale versions of the creation of humanity that I should explain all of geology, physics, and biology to you personally—otherwise I should shut up. Classic God of the Gaps strategy—silence your opponent by making him your personal teacher/slave.


254 posted on 07/10/2007 12:11:19 PM PDT by burzum (None shall see me, though my battlecry may give me away -Minsc)
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To: burzum

No whining. Just pointing out expected crevo debate standards. You make the assertion, you back it up. You don’t go sending people off to chase fairy tale statements you made and *do their own work*.

Creationists are regularly criticized for not backing up what they say. It goes both ways. Not providing anything basically means you have nothing. Failure to provide substantial evidence for your assertions gives you no credibility.


261 posted on 07/10/2007 8:48:07 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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