I just found this, but hope to absorb it properly today. Creationists just drive me so nuts, I get hysterical and, consequently (for me at any rate), revert to a sort of pre-verbal state. How can people be so willfully stupid?
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The purpose of The Wedgie Document is very specific: to provide rational people (defenders of science, evilutionists, whatever) with guidance in presenting persuasive arguments in internet debates. Someone once observed that 90% of the people reading these debates have their minds made up. It’s the other 10% of potentially open-minded readers that this document will help you address. A related purpose, at least for me, is to learn. A few months ago, I didn’t know what abiogenesis was, nor falsifiability, nor helium-rate diffusion. If you engage in fact-based debates, you can’t help but learn.
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