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To: Olog-hai
Argumentum ad verecundiam. That’s a logical fallacy, for the record.

Never mind the religious-sounding language (”for the lay people” and suchlike). If I keep getting more of that instead of the scientific method, it reinforces my perception that the off-topic theory in question is actually the religion I mentioned before with Hellenic roots.

It is a pretty typical and common response of devout creationists that when they cannot refute an argument with facts, they start falling back on cries of "logical fallacy." Of course, claiming logical fallacy (while having hardly any comprehension of what a true logical fallacy is) does not invalidate the factual argument. It is merely a diversionary tactic.

I point out that articles from certain sources are written for lay-people because I know perfectly well that pure scientific language is dense and incomprehensible to those who have not been educated in it. I'm interested in educating people, not snowing them with incomprehensible jargon.

I have no clue what you are talking about, "some religion with Hellenic roots." But I will point out that if you feel the need to dismiss science as a religion--a common trait of creationists--it says more about your feelings towards religion than it does about science. If you want to illustrate that something is vile, you compare it to something that you consider equally vile.

Anyway, none of your creationist objections to science are very original or interesting. You don't like science--I get it. You really don't have to keep illustrating it.

71 posted on 04/22/2014 5:13:26 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

That’s your most projectionist response thus far. You haven’t brought any facts to the table here; only opinions, and observations tenuously described as “evidence”. Furthermore, you steered this thread off topic for no reason, and are trying to justify it by self-righteousness and smugness.

Please explain how an advocate of this particular off-topic subject is utterly unfamiliar (or feigns unfamiliarity?) with its roots? The ancient Greeks were the first to come up with notions of development of one species from another and natural selection. How is it that names such as Empedocles and Anaximander do not spring to mind at once, not to mention Aristotle?


72 posted on 04/22/2014 10:03:06 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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