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The Gish Gallop, named after creationist Duane Gish, is the debating technique of drowning the opponent in such a torrent of half-truths, lies, and straw-man arguments that the opponent cannot possibly answer every falsehood in real time.
Eugenie Scott, director of the National Center for Science Education, argues that public debates with creationists do little to further the cause of quality science education. Among her reasons are that (1) creationists usually fill the audience with their supporters, who are unlikely to have the educational grounding necessary to understand the arguments presented in favor of evolution, (2) evolution is a complex set of ideas that are not amenable to simple explanation in a short debate format, and (3) creationists make many simplistic but convincing-sounding arguments against evolution that take a significant amount of time to refute.
Don't feel embarrassed if you've never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name either..................................... I have consistently refused, in the spirit, if not the letter, of a famous retort by the then president of the Royal Society: "That would look great on your CV, not so good on mine..................................................... I would only say I that I turn down hundreds of more worthy invitations every year
SuperFrog
This is what will happen to evolution or abiogenesis, with further reading of scripts and 'adjusting it' they will figure out that Evolution is Exactly what Bible said.
sdb93awd
reply to post by adamtash
I have got half way through this post and have got to say as a historian there is no proof that Jesus either the man or the son of God existed. I just had to add that and now I am going to finish the rest of the post.
Almost every single historian will tell you that Jesus of Nazereth was real.
AfterInfinity
reply to post by crazyewok
Ihope you at least have respect and time for scientifically-grounded facts.
crazyewok
Yes IM a Microbiologist.
And although I do believe in a god, I also accept most of Evolution and the Big bang theory. There are hard facts that cant be ignored.
Prezbo369
crazyewok
Yes IM a Microbiologist.
And although I do believe in a god, I also accept most of Evolution and the Big bang theory. There are hard facts that cant be ignored.
I'm curious to know exactly what it is about evolution that a microbiologist doesn't accept?