Hi Creation Is Fallacious, and welcome to the fray.
Should students be educated on logical fallacies and illogical statements ...
Most definitely. Being able to identify false claims in advertising, politics, and punditry would be of immense benefit to society.
... BEFORE being exposed to the whole evolution/creation debate?
I think it is a much wider problem than just evo/creo debates, but a life skill.
It seems like more and more people are buying into strawmen, argument from incredulity, argument of ignorance, probability, and flat out lies than ever before...
When shrubbia was re-elected I had to re-evaluate my assessment of the intelligence of the average american, and it was then that I gave up the "conspiracy theory" explanation for the first election: HL Mencken was right, nobody ever went broke underestimating the gullibility of people.
Enjoy.
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