The ad hominen attack is also hypocritical as Dr. Safarti's degrees
are in chemistry and thus do not provide any evidence of expertise in
evolution. Of course, they do not provide evidence of lack of
expertise, either; I know of several active researchers in
paleontology and molluscan biology who do not have relevant degrees.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
Droitgate Spa
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: James Mahaffy <mahaffy@mtcnet.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:36:16 -0500
>Folks,
>
>I was looking at the archives and read a few of the posts about Rennie's
>editorial against "Creationist Nonsense"
>
>One of the posts had a link to Sarfati's response. While Jon may have a
>legitimate point in showing the bias that Renne has to Christianity and
>especially Creationism - there is no cause to slam him as he does for
>only having a Bachelor of Science. Too often we engage on attacks of
>the credentials of the person and not the argument of the person. While
>Jon's credentials are good, as a group YEC have more than one leader
>that has credential that are not that great. But what we should look
>at is the arguments and perhaps the science of the person. On this
>list, I respect Glenn for his reading and command of the anthropology
>literature - although as far as I know he has no advanced degrees in
>that area. There are others on this list whose credentials are in
>physics yet they can make sense in arguments about evolution because
>they know a bit about science not because they research or have
>credentials in the area.
>
>I suspect Rennie's article was a bit of a rant and I might agree with
>some of Jon's points but he turned me off when he attacked the man for
>having no more than a bachelor of science. Maybe ad hominen attacks are
>effective but I hate them and think they violate Christian methods of
>argumentation.
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