10 Lies and Misconceptions Peddled by AiG

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10 Lies and Misconceptions Peddled by AiG

It's called "10 Lies and Misconceptions peddled by Answers in Genesis"

http://secweb.infidels.org/?kiosk=articles&id=791

Note: In number 8, the link to the info about the megaflood should have been:
http://www.livescience.com/history/070718_british_megafloods.html

The guys over at the Secular Web assured me that this would be fixed soon.


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Considering that AiG is a

Considering that AiG is a veritable cornucopia of quote-mining, misconceptions, apocrypha, flat-out lies and diabolically clever "framing", it must have taken a lot of work to boil it down to just ten examples.

"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different." - Douglas Murray


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These were just the most

These were just the most common fallacies I came across. It would take a lifetime to document all the fallacies and false statements they make.


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AIG

There was actually a VERY long time period where I assumed that AIG was a deep cover ahteist troll posing as a young earth creationist. So many of their arguments are so weak that it didn't even occur to me that they could be serious. Then I discovered Kent Hovind....