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Atheists & Agnostics

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1. Consider the source: Cracked.com is the other Mad Magazine / Onion lite ... but ...

Mon Apr 11, 2016, 05:45 AM

Apr 2016

... but the techniques ring true enough. There are a lot of fallacies used by creationists and other anti-intellectuals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

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Creationist science-textbook is actually a handbook how to brainwash people. [View all] DetlefK Apr 2016 OP

Those are the same strategies used by advocates for pseudoscience Orrex Apr 2016 #2

''Creationist science'' Shadowflash Apr 2016 #3

The bad news: Creationists will last as long as the human race lasts. Binkie The Clown Apr 2016 #4