“We don’t debate evolution because it’s not debatable,” she said. “It’s like debating the existence of Canada.” Because they are utterly unmoored from science, rationality, and reality, creationists make excellent debaters. Well-versed in the Gish Gallop—an underhanded strategy in which the debater throws out dozens of small lies that would take too long for his opponent to correct—the typical creationist can convince an uneducated audience that, at the very least, his views have some scientific heft. That’s why creationists are always angling for public debates: While real scientists are bound by the complexities of the truth, creationists can simply spin out a shimmering web of total fantasy. For creationists, read Oxfordians throughout. slate/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/11/michigan_state_origin_summit_the_university_s_perfect_response_to_the_creationist.html
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