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BroilJAB <
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The "Big Tent" Creationist Charter
(established circa 1980)
1. Don't ask, don't tell what happened when (must cover up those
weaknesses and contradictions of those failed YEC and OEC
"theories"!).
2. Bait and switch between proximate and ultimate causes.
3. Promote doubt of evolution, and leave it to the audience to infer
what happened instead, when, and how.
4. Bait and switch between evolution and abiogenesis.
5. Bait and switch between abiogenesis, which had to occur at least
once by definition, and the yet-unknown proximate causes of how it
occurred.
6. Use the word "Darwinism" at every opportunity.
7. Quote mine like thereąs no tomorrow.
8. Play favorites with the evidence, just like YECs and OECs, but
donąt infer anything other than that "Darwinism" is falsified or
unfalsifiable or dead, dying, etc., whatever the audience will buy.
9. If the "activist judges" rule in favor of the "Darwinists" ditch
the "creation" language, and use something like "design" instead.
10. If you need to do #9, claim that your "theory" is not
creationism; critics will take the bait and react with "is too
creationism!" Which lets youŠ
11. Exploit multiple definitions (especially of "theory"), and the
public misconceptions based on them.
12. If all else fails, whine about being "expelled" and play the
Hitler card.
--
"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less
remote from the- truth who believes nothing than
he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson