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To: GodGunsGuts

Let's see, per Creation Safari's own website, we have several cases of baloney here. Let's take a look:

An advocate of any form of uniformitarianism would believe ...
What baloney do we have here boys and girls? Why none other than..
Straw Man
Definition:  Caricature, making your opponent’s argument seem ridiculous so that it is easily knocked down.
& Half Truth
Definition:  Part truth and part lie; sugar-coated poison.  Often more effective than the Big Lie.

Why a straw man and half truth. You see, they are deceiving you to believe that uniformitarianism only accepts slow and gradual, they are only giving you half the picture (actually less) because it also accepts that catastrophe happens, such as volcanoes, floods, etc, all that can achieve similar results as the gradual covering concept. Heck, we can see this process even today in the lakes around Mt. St. Helen's where we have trees buried, just like you see here, being preserved. They lie about the full picture of uniformitarianism then use a straw man argument to tie the belief to that lie.. Clever.. What other Baloney can we find here?
How about some:
Glittering Generalities
Definition:  Broad-brush oversimplifications that gloss over exceptions or problems.

Or maybe we'll throw in a little: Reductionism (this is the big one for this article.)
Definition:  Reducing a complex concept to just a subset of its components as if it represented the whole.

GGG's own Creation Safari's website provides a great guide for how they write these articles. I suggest you check it out. Play the game too.. Can you spot the Baloney?

12 posted on 10/22/2009 8:28:15 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring
Wow, I see you are powerless to resist posting the Baloney Detector on virtually every thread, no matter what the topic. Compared to you, the CEH website, which is the creator of the Baloney Detector, uses this symbol quite sparingly. You know, they say that repetitive motion disorders, such as your incessant need to post the same baloney detector over and over, is often the result of longstanding infant brain disorders, or traumatic brain injury. You should really check into that. Who knows, by now they may have a medication or a procedure that will help solve your heretofore irresistible repetitive behaviors.

Wishing your full recovery--GGG

15 posted on 10/22/2009 8:52:16 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: mnehring

Leading mankind to religion by deceit, omission, misstatement, exaggeration, and fantasy. What a bizarre view of God these people have.


48 posted on 10/23/2009 6:36:20 AM PDT by tlb
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