complich8′s journal

A while ago, I came across this slashdot article, which boldly went where everyone has gone before: declaring that the concept of intelligent design is dying, because science has worked out how bees fly.

Made me think about the classic ID defense model, which looks something like this:

1. Science believes in evolution
2. Science can’t even explain how bees fly
3. Thus, evolution is wrong

This is the classic form Ad-hominem fallacy at work. A believes B. There’s something objectionable about A, thus not B.

If you want to make yourself a credible argument about your beliefs, that’s fine. But if the first thing you have to do is resort to logical fallacy, then just don’t even try to rationalize it. Just admit that the only reason you believe what you believe is faith, and realize that faith and logic have no means of coexisting, without horribly twisting both out of shape.

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