I am going to use the discussion points found on RichardDawkins.net as the basis of this feature.
Calilasseia is the author of the post and deserves many rich accolades for assembling so much useful information in one spot. This constitutes an open thread of sorts, please leave your opinions and observations in the comment section.
It is just a short blurb, but an important one as knowing and being charitable toward your opponents positions is vital during a reasonable debate.
Enjoy!
[4] Learn what scientists ACTUALLY postulate, not what you think they postulate, or have been told that they postulate by duplicitous apologetics websites.
This dovetails nicely with [3] above (because creationists always assume they know better what scientists postulate than the scientists themselves), and also dovetails to varying degrees with [6], [9], [10], [11], [12] and [13] below. If creationists really want to critique the theory of evolution, then they had better start learning what that theory actually postulates, as opposed to the farcical strawman caricatures thereof erected by authors of duplicitous apologetics. If you cannot be bothered to exercise this basic level of intellectual effort, then don’t be surprised if people treat your attempts to erect 3,000 year old mythology, written by ignorant Bronze Age nomads, as being purportedly “superior” to the work of Nobel Laureates, with the scorn and derision such attempts deserve.




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July 4, 2010 at 7:32 am
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July 4, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Adam
The end of the post seems pretty rude for a post tagged ‘being charitable.’ But I’ve read too many creationists who are blatantly dishonest and really don’t care to talk about actual science.
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