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On 2002-09-29 07:10, David Hall wrote:
Oh please. It's possible to find examples of bad and deceptive arguments on just about any side of any debate. It's almost unavoidable. But in this case, for every poor argument put out by the mainstream, I've seen at least ten from YE creationists. The same goes for most conspiracists and cranks. It's not a matter of one side does it and the other side doesn't. It's a matter of degree, and how strong (or weak) the underlying position is.
Pot, meet kettle.
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More to the point, is it possible to find someone on the YEC side who *isn't* guilty of these techniques? On the scientific side, you've got Asimov, Sagan, Gould, Morowitz, Quammen, etc. etc., who do *not* engage in such behaviors.
There are bad apples in just about any barrel, but when a barrel hasn't got any *good* apples, you have to start to wonder!
Silas