1) Scientists are liars and conspire to defraud the public
I haven't read the whole thread, but the direct replies to the OP as well as the OP itself suggests that YEC's are hesitant to say that scientists are liars and conspire to defraud the public. I don't think that's true.
John Morris is one of the most popular speakers against evolution. I believe he's the head of the Institute of Creation Research. He certainly writes their Q&A section. In it, at
Just How Well Proven Is Evolution? | The Institute for Creation Research, you'll find:
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It makes you wonder if evolutionists really believe what they say or if they are purposively trying to mislead. I suspect there are some of both.
He adds, "However, most evolutionists are evolutionists because they are victims of the wrong teaching of others," but really this changes nothing. All this means is that these "others" are purposely deceiving their victims with wrong teaching. saying that the victims outnumber the false teachers doesn't change the fact that ICR is saying it is likely that at the heart of evolution is purposeful deception.
This doesn't seem uncommon to me.
Robert Congelliere on Dr. Dino's (Kent Hovind) web site (
http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=105), says:
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He said, "Evolution [is] a theory universally accepted not because it can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible". This of course is an admission that the foundation of evolution is not science, but a rejection of the supernatural.
While this suggests that evolutionist teachers are mistaken due to rejecting the supernatural, the suggestion is that they are purposefully ignoring the supernatural and so must cling to evolution against the evidence.
Bruce Malone, on the same web site at
http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=41 writes:
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Furthermore, there is a strong bias to reject any dating method which does not allow enough time for evolution to have happened....In the other hand there are many dating methods which indicate that the earth is quite young, then evolution is obviously a myth and creation becomes the only logical alternative. Could this be the primary reason that only those methods which seem to indicate very old ages are acceptable?
Again, the accusation is purposeful deception. It's based on bias, yes, but a purposeful rejection of any dating method that gives young earth dates is charged.
On another web site (
http://www.geocities.com/...yjordan/EvolutionisaBIGLIE3.html} I found:
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32. YOU WILL NOTICE THAT THE EVOLUTIONISTS HAVE CHOSEN SOME VERY LONG AND DIFFICULT-TO-PRONOUNCE NAMES FOR THEIR "MISSING-LINKS", the foundation stones, or bones, on which their faith is built. Doing this sort of thing envelopes it all with a shroud of mystery and even puts a little superstitious awe into the minds of the average laymen. Like many other religious authorities, the high priests of the "sacred cow" of false-science has done this to give credence to their faith and to gain reverence for themselves!
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34. However, THE SCIENTISTS SOON FOUND IT IMPOSSIBLE to reconstruct a halfway believable evolutionary chain showing man rising from the ape family, so they had to cook up a new theory--which they promptly did!
No, not all anti-evolutionists say that evolution is a purposeful deception, but many do. Others who won't say that "evolutionists" (whoever they are) are purposefully deceiving will say that the devil is purposefully deceiving the evolutionists.
Either way, all the quote mining that anti-evolutionists do is designed to say that evolutionists know that their theory doesn't hold water. If that's true, then doesn't it follow that they are deceiving on purpose?
Personally, I'd say that purposeful deception--by the evolutionist leaders themselves or by satan--is the accusation that the majority of anti-evolutionists would and do level against scientists.
That all said, I hope it's known that I don't believe the quotes above. I believe evolution happened.
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