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* [[proof by authority]], or highlighting their own academic credentials or those of their allies in support of their theories. An academic credential can include anything from a publishing credit (especially in a "peer-reviewed" journal) to a degree to a particular academic appointment. However, [[Ben Stein]] (''[[Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]'') shows that evolutionists add this twist: they systematically deny to others, whenever they can, any opportunity to acquire similar credentials.

* [[proof by authority]], or highlighting their own academic credentials or those of their allies in support of their theories. An academic credential can include anything from a publishing credit (especially in a "peer-reviewed" journal) to a degree to a particular academic appointment. However, [[Ben Stein]] (''[[Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]'') shows that evolutionists add this twist: they systematically deny to others, whenever they can, any opportunity to acquire similar credentials.

* use of bizarre jargon such as [[quote mining]] and [[moving the goalposts]]

* use of bizarre jargon such as [[quote mining]] and [[moving the goalposts]]

* inordinate attempt to demonize the other side, as in overuse of the term [[creationist]] and [[fundamentalist]]

* 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.