Who Ya Calling Anti-Science?
When "debunking" creationary material, anti-creationists use several tactics, but seldom employ reason, science, and logic. Ironically those are things they claim to uphold. Instead, they use logically fallacious arguments such as the straw man, loaded terminology, arbitrary assertions, poisoning the well, the red herring, outright lying, and their usual first resort, the ad hominem attack. (I believe most of their fallacies could be considered variations on the red herring diversion .) Something I've said for years is that respect must be earned , and such scheming moves their respect percentages into the negative numbers. One version of the red herring/ ad hominem is the use of emotive terminology. Fine print fail (lower right), made on imgur , URL added later Those of us who reject microbes-to-mocker evolution are often bushwhacked with speech-control labels such as "anti-science" ( here, for example ), or its ugly kid brother, "science denie