Pterosaur Pictograph and Overgeneralization
Anti-creationists have been known to use hasty and overgeneralizations (among other logical fallacies) to describe the positions held by biblical creationists. The "pterosaur carved by Native Americans at Black Canyon, Utah" is a splendid example of how some tinhorns can act. They want to prove us wrong, but use logical fallacies to do it. Oh, please. This character who strikes me as a P.Z. Myers wannabe claims that it's "actual science smacking down creationist fairy tales" (straw man, question-begging epithet), and uses a fallacy of reification in the title, " Pterodactyl Murdered by Science! " Hard to take people like this seriously. Couldn't find a picture of the image under discussion that I felt I could legally use, so I made something up. Original image from US BLM , with pterosaur clip art . The facts are that some creationists used the idea that the Native American pictograph looked like a pterosaur, but that idea was certainly