Top 10 Standard Rhetorical Fallacies used by Young Earth Creationists
1. There is no empirical evidence of the world having existed longer than 10,000 years.
2. Scientists make mistakes all the time, therefore evolution (and geology and astronomy which are just part of evolution) might be all wrong, therefore in science you can't know that young earth creationism is wrong.
3. This is an argument about scientific interpretation (uniformitarianism), not an argument about the facts.
4. How do you know what happened back then? Were you there?
5. God just made things appear to be old.
6. Geology is an evolutionist conspiracy.
7. Astronomy is an evolutionist conspiracy.
8. Evolution is a religion, not science.
9. Evolution is an atheist conspiracy.
10. People accept evolution (and geology and astronomy which are part of the evolutionist conspiracy) to support atheism.
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