Tag: rhetoric
Eric Anderson: Probability and Intelligent Design
Anderson taps an area of his expertise, the ongoing efforts to create self-reproducing machines, and he applies it to the mystery of life’s origin.
What’s Wrong with Calling Intelligent Design “Anti-Evolution”?
The term “anti-evolution” has been used for decades, over and over, by untold numbers of defenders of Darwin and critics of the theory of intelligent design.
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.
Darwin’s Origin of Species — Some Historical Reflections 160 Years Later
Surely the “iconic” status of Darwin’s book could never have been predicted by either the author or his publisher.
Phillip Johnson: The “Mahatma” of the Intelligent Design Movement
Johnson spotted the slick tactics in evolutionary arguments, “the same rhetorical tricks that clever lawyers use when they have to defend a flawed case in court.”