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Intelligent Design and Straw Men

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Editor,

Brett Rowland recently wrote about the ongoing controversy over the teaching of intelligent design. I respond to the criticisms offered against it. First, have you noticed that the critics of intelligent design (ID) never tell you what it is? As some of these critics are educators, it seems unconscionable to me to intentionally misrepresent a topic and then attack it as something that it is not. ID is accused of teaching religion. Let’s consider that criticism.
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In my classes on logic, we expose the fallacy of turning your opponent’s position into something foolish and then attacking that imaginary argument. It’s always easier to win a debate that way, right? This is called the straw man fallacy. It seems quite clear to me that the attacks on ID are a prime example of the straw man fallacy. When the critics of ID attack it for what it really is, then maybe the 90 percent of the American population that doubts the validity of Darwinism evolution will pay some attention to them.

Edward Huston, Hollister

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