alex chiang: web 6.0

Joseph Farah write about why he believes in creation. His reasoning? Dragons. (thanks to Fark for the link)

I checked my new favorite website, Stephen’s Guide to Logical Fallacies, for a quick label to slap onto Farah’s “arguments”, but apparently, Farah’s ramblings aren’t even rigorous enough to qualify as any sort of logical fallacy. His column is basically just a jumbled mush that he diarrhea’ed into his computer and called good.

Furthermore, many of the dinosaur fossils discovered in various parts of the world were found right along human footprints and remains. How did that happen?

And what about the not-so-unusual sightings of contemporary sea monsters? Some of them have actually been captured.

There are also countless contemporary sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls in Asia and Africa.

The best I can figure is that this is a combination of the fallacy of anonymous authority and hearsay (”which is a variation of the fallacious appeal to authority”).

Where are the references to the discovery of dinosaur fossils and human footprints? Who are the people who have seen sea monsters and pterodactyls? Why is he using weasel words: “what appear to be …”?

Suffice to say that applying rigorous thought towards picking apart his column would be a waste of time. I merely point it out so that others may read it and form their own opinions. The scary thing is, more people will read his article than will read my blog post.

On the internet, everyone knows you’re a moron.