Monday, March 07, 2005

Critical Thinking

The subject of this blog centers around this essay. I just noticed now that the title of the web page when you pull up this link is "Christian Terrorism: The War on Science."
There are a huge number of poorly written articles/essays written on both sides of the Creation/Evolution discussion. The essay is rather lengthy, and I am not going to respond to in a point by point manner partly because there are so many errors. Have you ever read something that was so completly wrong, you had no idea where to start correcting it?

I really love the very end, where there are seven points listing the characteristics of critical thinking. Read these first, and then go read the body of the essay. The really sad and yet really funny thing is that this guy violates nearly every critical thinking principle he lists at the end! This is a classic example of what happens when you fail to critically examine your own position. All I ask is that people in general apply the same measure of judgement on themselves that they apply on others. Is that so hard to ask? Sven, I know you'll love this essay.

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