A few weeks ago, my colleague Dr. Logan Gage sent me an email highlighting a new peer-reviewed paper in the highly regarded scientific journal PLOS ONE, "Experiential Thinking in Creationism -- A Textual Analysis." The authors, Petteri Nieminen, Esko Ryökäs, and Anne-Mari Mustonen, purport to analyze the rhetorical tactics of those they call "creationists." They say they went through "creationist texts" and found that "quotations...were a major form of proof." We're told that "creationists"...
Published on March 31, 2015 10:53