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On 2002-09-29 05:11, Caryn wrote:
Malcolm Bowden's "Science vs Evolution" lists the 28 deceptive stratagems used by Evolutionists!
Vague phraseology, false analogies,assumptions become evidence, straw men,filtering the evidence, ad hoc theories, circular reasoning, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, post hoc ergo propter hoc, equivocation, fallacious appeal to authority,personalised abstractions, either...or,distraction, ad hominem, name calling, fallacy of the undistributed middle, non sequitur, sweeping statements, blinding with science, quoting out of context, special pleading, confident assertions, guilt by association, ridicule and humour, hurt feelings and appeal to be "Christ-like & loving"!
See Blind-Watchmaker Dawkins' "Tricks of the Advocate's Trade"!
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That must be the book my proffesor used to give us the list in his notes. He uses those exact categories. (i had left some out and also change the names of some i put in to further enhance their readability and so i don't have to give a huge explanation for each. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
But i do agree with dave that it is not only evolutionists who use them, creationsits, and even most sceptics use them too. For dealing with the general, unscientific community, and the general uneducated or semi-educated public they are great to use. They mostly appeal to empotion and reason instead of logic and science. They appear to be valid arguments, (some have valid points dispersed with their own theories) but when they are put throught the rigors of peer testing and experiment they usually fail.
The people who solely or at least 60% of the time use these, usually do not write for scientific journals. They are the scientists who first write for newsweek, popular science and CNN before they publish anything in the journals.
Or at least that is what it seems like to me.
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