Re: Stereotypes and reputations

"..The rhetorical thing to do, the political thing to do is to tie your
opponent with the worst emotional example you can and then make him defend
that example rather than defend whatever it is that he is defending. Not
only is this fun, it is downright useful. Frankly, I don't believe that
this was entirely innocent. .....Could I just be calloused after 11 years
of fighting YEC and being called everything under the sun by these people
who won't change one iota if you show them a picture?" ~ Glenn

In one sense you are using an "emotional" example when you seem to be
equating ID proponents solely with extremist fundamentalist YECs. Is this
an "entirely innocent" mistake on your part?

ID got off the ground because people like Alvin Plantinga
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/arn/odesign/od181/methnat181.htm
signed off on the effort and forced Wayne Carley, executive director of the
NABT to remove some language that was too explicit in stating their
naturalistic philosophy. ie: They excised the key words "unsupervised" and
"impersonal" from their creed, technically allowing for the possibility
that a personal, intelligent creator designed life. Carley admitted that
the change was made because they wanted "to avoid taking a religious
position." That is an admission that demonstrates the truth that the
association's original platform - like Darwinism itself - exceeds purely
scientific conclusions, and embraces distinctly religious ideas.
(Scientism) Source:
http://www.biblicalcreation.org.uk/theology_philosophy/bcs089.html

Janice

At 08:05 AM 7/29/2005, glennmorton@entouch.net wrote:

>The rhetorical thing to do, the political thing to do is to tie your
>opponent with the worst emotional example you can and then make him defend
>that example rather than defend whatever it is that he is defending. Not
>only is this fun, it is downright useful. Frankly, I don't believe that
>this was entirely innocent. As I said, she could have chosen so many other
>examples. Why Stalin? I also don't think that anyone in the ID group would
>tell Nancy that that was a bad example to use.
>
>Could I just be calloused after 11 years of fighting YEC and being called
>everything under the sun by these people who won't change one iota if you
>show them a picture?
Received on Fri Jul 29 09:54:01 2005