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Responding to the "thinking atheist"

Kevin Conover - Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Watch this video and then read my replies to his argument below. Some of these are straw men arguments just trying to make evolutionists look smart, others misstate the creationist position, and others have nothing at all to do with creationism. Lastly I post real creationist arguments. continue...


Detecting Evolutionary Baloney with Phillip E. Johnson

Kevin Conover - Friday, September 23, 2011

A Brief Look at Logical Fallacies
by Robert Gerow


†  In Defeating Darwinism By Opening Minds (InterVarsity Press, 1997), an excellent basic-level guide to recognizing the flaws of Neo-Darwinian evolution, author Phillip E. Johnson highlights several critical thinking tips that every person should employ. Johnson is a legal scholar by trade, and since the publishing of his controversial book Darwin on Trial (InterVarsity Press, 1991), he has debated many top evolutionary thinkers in print and before audiences. Thus, he is all too familiar with the fallacious reasoning that Darwin's apologists regularly engage in, and dedicates chapter three of Defeating Darwinism to the task of exposing said reasoning through what he calls "baloney detecting" (a term borrowed from the late astronomer Carl Sagan).1  The well-tuned baloney detector recognizes a number of invalid argument strategies, and I'd like to describe a few of them to you in summarized form. I highly recommend that you read either of the two books mentioned above (or both!) if you get the chance. continue...


False missing links again and again and again...

Kevin Conover - Sunday, November 08, 2009


I recently received a question from one of my previous students who graduated in 2009.


"...I had some questions on the evolution thing we did during apologetics. What was the flaw of Lucy? Like what did they find that was incorrect? And have you heard of the newfound hominids, one is called ardipithecus ramidus also 'ardi' and another one is called ardipithecus kaddaba? Let me know if you find anything about these two." continue...



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