[papertyger]

Perhaps you have a link to that "dictum" you can share?

Unfortunately due to his voluminous writing about not only evolution, but the arguments used by evolutionists, finding a "favorite riff" written by Dembski is a challenge, even with the help of google. (Like finding a particular "Jones" in a major metropolitan phone book)

If I recall correctly, Dembski laments the fact that nearly all argumentation with modern evolutionists is largely futile, because when challenged by an evolutionarily problematic mechanism in the natural world the evolutionist considers himself the "winner" if he can even conceive of a possible evolutionary pathway to explain the mechanism under discussion...quite apart from any actual evidence for, or consideration of, the plausibility of his explanation.

You may think it a useless endeavor, but I don't recall Christ ever telling Christians to stand down in the defense of Truth, do you? In fact I remember reading something in Ephesians 6 that says quite the opposite.

I don't recall Christ ever telling Christians to conflate promulgation of the Gospel with correcting every error in the thinking of man, particularly when said error is functionally irrefutable.

A perpetual argument with "invincible ignorance" is no different than perpetually tending a tree that gives no fruit.

[Agamemnon]

Unfortunately due to his voluminous writing about not only evolution, but the arguments used by evolutionists, finding a "favorite riff" written by Dembski is a challenge, even with the help of google.

Yeah, I didn't recall that there was any "dictum" either.

I don't recall Christ ever telling Christians to conflate promulgation of the Gospel with correcting every error in the thinking of man, particularly when said error is functionally irrefutable.

Error may collapse of its weight on the basis of internal contradiction, in which case the thing refutes itself, but no error is "functionally irrefutable." Error is always refutable by Truth.

Jesus is the ... Truth, ... (John 14:16); Paul writes that we are to put on the whole armor of God and to stand (Ephesians 6:13); "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for reproof, for correction, ...." (2 Timothy 3:16).

Stand for Truth. Correct error.

Do you agree?

Mastering the skill of rebuking logical fallacy and poor argumentation begins with having ready access to those sources from which one intends to quote in order to make their point.

FReegards!