Similarities Between Poor Quality Scientific Papers and Pseudoscientific Essays

[Paraleptopecten (Timothy Campbell)]

@adamjedgar

What you simply do not acknowledge…none of this makes any difference to christianity.

I didn’t acknowledge it explicitly because it is irrelevant to my point and query. It is true, but it is not relevant to the question at hand.

@adamjedgar

how do you ignore pseudotheology?

Because it is irrelevant to the question I was asking and the point I was making.

@adamjedgar

the stupidity of the claim YEC are flat earthers

I did not claim that that is the case. The similarity that is relevant to what I am talking about is that individuals promoting both positions frequently write essays that read like poor-quality scientific papers. Whether the positions are in and of themselves wrong is a separate issue.

@adamjedgar

Btw…wheres the paper on that claim, you didnt provide the url.

Fine then, here:

AiG picks at specks in Flat-Earth cosomology

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the log in your own? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a log in your own eye?" Answers in Genesis ran an interesting article critiquing the Flat-Earth Movement back in June. I missed @Laura’s thread (Young-Earth and Flat-Earth views using similar rhetoric) on it the first time around, but I didn’t want to re-open it just for this. As Laura an…