Hey, what did you think of the RW article? I was most cheered that commenters on Jerry Coyne's post about the article said that it would actually have helped them. Which is quite a good motivation to spend a week of my holiday working on it. If you can put yourself back into your way of thinking back then: how do you think you would have reacted? Would any of the responses just stopped you reading? It's consciously written for a target audience of people who've been miseducated but who will think if you lead them to ideas.
I just finished it. It's very thorough while still relatively brief. Really good.
As best as I can recall the YEC mindset, when I saw "X theory can explain Y" I read it as "they are excusing Y." But of course you can't do anything other than provide current scientific consensus on debated questions, so there's not much you can do there.
I know you have no control over the order of the list, but it's unfortunate that so many "X could be young therefore the earth could be young!" arguments are at the beginning. The standard respon...
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