Type
of Fallacy:
Ad
hominem
Definition:
An
ad hominem argument attacks the messenger not the message. Also known
as “don’t kill the messenger.” The argument may be true. It may
be false. The quality of the argument doesn’t depend who is
carrying the message.
Example:
“The
secular geologist can’t see or hear the message about Creationism
because of their academic indoctrination in anti-biblical
uniformitarian assumptions. The reason that most Christian geologists
can’t see it is the same, plus the fact they have believed the
scientific establishment more than the Bible that they claim to
believe is the inspired, inerrant Word of God.”
This
doesn’t say anything about the argument of Creationism, but rather
the scientists. And the assumption that because you happen to be a
geologist and a believer you are also going to share the fundies
belief that the theological library in a book is inspired, without
error and to be taken literally There are believers in the sciences,
they just don’t share the beliefs of the Ken Hamms and the guy who
owns Hobby Lobby.
Note on Ken Hamm. He finally convinced Kentucky to allow tax breaks for an Ark Park. A full scale model of Noah's Ark. Complete with baby dinosaurs. You see Noah only took babies because the parents were too big. And I assume, only vegisaureses. Can you imagine what a couple of velociraptors would have done to the ark population and don't forget T Rex.
Anyway the promised jobs and revenues haven't materialized. I mean how times are you going to pay to see a one trick pony?
A venue in Oregon City met the same fate. Too bad they opened a couple of years before the Bush Recession.They featured the story of the Oregon Trail. Very interesting. We went to it. Once. There was a nice gift shop. Some good books. But, once you had been there, there was no reason to go back to see the same presentation again. The folks running the show didn't seem to realize that you had to come up with something different once in awhile and I wasn't going to drive a hundred miles just to go through their gift shop again
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