"The Creationist battle cry can be stated thus: Public ignorance is Creationist bliss." This is just one of the many attacks made against Creationist in Richard Young's article, "Why Creation 'Science' Must Be Kept Out of the Classroom." Throughout the article he uses many hasty generalizations about creationist theories. The first hasty generalizations Young makes are untrue statements about the Bible. He then uses states beliefs that are true for only of a few Christians with extremist ideas, not the common Christians view of Creationism. Young continues attacking Creationist by making more hasty generalizations, and begging the question on why Creationism is a weak argument compared to evolutionism. Finally, he tops all this off by attacking the Creationist theories in using false analogies.

The first hasty generalization that Young makes is an attack on the Creationists' views. He claims that Creationists are extremists because they take the Bible literally. The reason why he has a problem with taking the Bible literally is because of his accusations of the Bible. He claims that the Bible says "that the earth is flat, that all space flight has been hoaxed, that the Sun orbits the s

It is precisely this loss of faith [not taking the Bible literally], alleged to have been caused by the proliferation of 'evolutionary thought,' that the creationist hold responsible for all the evils of the world, including 'sex education, alcohol, suicide, women's liberation, terrorism, homosexuality, inflation, socialism, racism and dirty books.' Judge Braswell Dean, a Georgia lobbyist for Creationism, lays an equally comprehensive spectrum of crimes on the doorstep of evolution: ...this monkey mythology of Darwin is the cause of abortions, permissiveness, promiscuity, perversions, pregnancies, prophylactics, pornotherapy[sic], pollution, poisoning and proliferation of crimes.

After this statement, Young says that "What the Creationists present as a science are in fact pseudoscience[sic], much like palmistry, astrology and the alchemy of old. As a scientific alternative to evolution, Creationism is a dismal failure." Young does not give any reasons why; he leaves that question up to us to figure out. Creationism has no similarities to the things to which Young compares them. Creationism is not some cheesy science used to predict the future of somebody's life, and it is not some old science that has been proven wrong.

As one is able to see through the problems with Young's arguments aga

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