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* Use of bizarre jargon such as "[[quote mining]]," "[[moving the goalposts]]" and "[[Fundamentalism|fundies]]"; use of incoherent phrases like "unconvincingly hysterical"

* Use of bizarre jargon such as "[[quote mining]]," "[[moving the goalposts]]" and "[[Fundamentalism|fundies]]"; use of incoherent phrases like "unconvincingly hysterical"

* Inordinate attempt to demonize the other side, as in overuse of the term [[creationist]] and [[fundamentalist]]. The latter example includes the attempt to show that [[Christian]] fundamentalists are morally equivalent to [[Muslim]] fundamentalists, whether in their extreme rejection of modernity or in their practice and advocacy of [[terrorism]].

* Inordinate attempt to demonize the other side, as in overuse of the term [[creationist]] and [[fundamentalist]]. The latter example includes the attempt to show that [[Christian]] fundamentalists are morally equivalent to [[Muslim]] fundamentalists, whether in their extreme rejection of modernity or in their practice and advocacy of [[terrorism]].

* An astounding lack of understanding -- or denial -- of how most great scientists  and mathematicians either rejected evolution or were silent about it

* An astounding lack of understanding—or denial—of how most great scientists  and mathematicians either rejected evolution or were silent about it

* An equal lack of understanding, or denial, that most of the greatest scientists in the Western world asserted the reality of [[creation]] and the [[Great Flood]] prior to the [[Enlightenment]], or else a denial that their scientific achievements (including those of [[Sir Isaac Newton]]!) matter today.

* An equal lack of understanding, or denial, that most of the greatest scientists in the Western world asserted the reality of [[creation]] and the [[Great Flood]] prior to the [[Enlightenment]], or else a denial that their scientific achievements (including those of [[Sir Isaac Newton]]!) matter today.

* Frequent reliance on [[circular reasoning]], as in defining evolution as change and [[survival of the fittest]] as those who survive

* Frequent reliance on [[circular reasoning]], as in defining evolution as change and [[survival of the fittest]] as those who survive

* Ignoring the clear historical link between [[Darwinism]], [[Eugenics]], and the [[Holocaust]].

* Ignoring the clear historical link between [[Darwinism]], [[Eugenics]], and the [[Holocaust]].

* [[Deliberate ignorance]] about [[Counterexamples to evolution|phenomena that evolution cannot explain]], such as remarkable [[migration]] and [[homing]], or the existence of the [[whale]].

* [[Deliberate ignorance]] about [[Counterexamples to evolution|phenomena that evolution cannot explain]], such as remarkable [[migration]] and [[homing]], or the existence of the [[whale]].

* Claim that the theory of evolution can be used as an applied science, like the development of flu vaccines, but continuing to support the theory when the application fails. <ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/opinion/20sun3.html?ref=opinion</ref>

* Claim that the theory of evolution can be used as an applied science, like the development of flu vaccines, but continuing to support the theory when the application fails.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/opinion/20sun3.html?ref=opinion</ref>

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