Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Fallacy Central
Johnathan Witt, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute writes on the Intelligent Design the Future blog that the right-wing Christian WorldNetDaily website has the best informed article yet on the Smithsonian's erractic behavior toward The Privileged Planet."
WorldNetDaily writes, "A campaign to convince the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to renege on its agreement to premier "The Privileged Planet," a film produced by the Discovery Institute, a major "intelligent design" think tank, may have backfired."
Oh, it backfired all right. That's why Discovery, O'Leary, and WorldNetDaily are in full damage control mode and pro-science people are slapping each other on the back.
Witt is a University of Kansas product by the way. His bio on Discovery's CSC website says, "After years of studying and teaching students about logical fallacies and the structure of sound arguments, Witt began to notice just how fallacious and unsound the arguments of the leading Darwinists were."
Hmmm. Looks like he's gone over to the dark side -- from teaching students how to recognize logical fallacies to constructing them himself.
Here are two headlines that were up on WorldNetDaily this morning:
WorldNetDaily writes, "A campaign to convince the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History to renege on its agreement to premier "The Privileged Planet," a film produced by the Discovery Institute, a major "intelligent design" think tank, may have backfired."
Oh, it backfired all right. That's why Discovery, O'Leary, and WorldNetDaily are in full damage control mode and pro-science people are slapping each other on the back.
Witt is a University of Kansas product by the way. His bio on Discovery's CSC website says, "After years of studying and teaching students about logical fallacies and the structure of sound arguments, Witt began to notice just how fallacious and unsound the arguments of the leading Darwinists were."
Hmmm. Looks like he's gone over to the dark side -- from teaching students how to recognize logical fallacies to constructing them himself.
Here are two headlines that were up on WorldNetDaily this morning:
- "Islam on march south of border: Mexico agrees to monitor foreign groups as Muslim recruitment rate skyrockets" [RSR notes that immigration is a big, big worry for the folks at WND]
- "Christianity really taking over planet? Reduced price on book that makes case it's fastest growing faith on Earth"
Fallacious? Contradictory? You decide.
