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On Wednesday there was another creationism seminar in the Neelsie, presented by a Donald James Batten, B.Sc.Agr. (Hons 1), Ph.D. In my subjective experience, the talk seemed like less of a circus than the seminar presented last year. By that, I mean the nefarious content was a little less obvious to the lay person. A [...]

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It is time for the first example of a straw man argument, presented by Gary Bates from Creation Ministries International (CMI) on 29 September in the Neelsie, on Stellenbosch Campus:
Fossils take millions of years to form.
What an incredibly cute straw man.

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The straw man argument: a mainstay for convincing the credulous to believe in your particular fiction.
Suppose you are making a movie and you need to have some guy chopped up or hanged, or something dramatic. Knowing you will be unable to chop up or hang a real person, you create a dummy. A dummy that [...]

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