Re: How the Leopard...? (was Brian Goodwin on the web)

Terry M. Gray (grayt@Calvin.EDU)
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:27:56 -0400

Thanks, Bill, for asking about this. I re-read it myself after it got
posted and wondered myself what it meant. Let me try to fix the sentence.

>
>>... and our Christian apology suffers when we're fighting positions
>>that criticizing evolutionary positions that evolutionists themselves are
>>criticizing in the name of a creationist apologetic.
>

Should be:

..and our Christian apology suffers when we're criticizing in the name of a
creationist apologetic evolutionary positions that evolutionists (with no
necessary interest in a creationist apologetic) themselves are criticizing.

In other words, we often point out weaknesses in evolutionists' argument
with the idea that the anti-evolutionist argument supports the creationist
view. But when other evolutionists are pointing out the same weakness,
then the goal of a pro-creationist argument is not achieved.

In my opinion it's a brand of straw man argumentation.

Sorry for the obfuscation.

TG

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