Tag: persuasion
On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris
Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me.
From Tom Gilson, Rhetorical Advice for Opponents of Intelligent Design
Getting ID theory right instead of criticizing a made-up straw man would be a good start.
Evolution Education — A Debater’s Perspective
William Butler Yeats noted, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
At the Foundations of Science: Respect and Seeking to Understand
I’ve been reading the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — with its interesting argument by Jefferson for design in nature as a scientific inference.