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Creationist and Truthers, Same Bullshit

It,s dosn,t take much to see the similarities between creationist and 9/11 Truthers. Both are pimping an idea that has absolutely no validity with the scientific community but they pretend they have scientific facts to back up their claims.

In real science there is a thing called consensus of opinion. In biological science evolution has overwhelming consensus that it is true, living organisms do evolve even to the point of creating new species. The consensus of opinion in the structural engineering community is that fires in the World Trand Centers combined with structural damage from being struck by large aircraft going 450MPH caused the towers to collapse. And this idea had held water for over 10 years.

The biggest logical falicy used by both is the old “I don’t know what happened”, the old arguing from ignorance. It’s one of the laziest of tactics and also very cowardly, it requires not taking a defined stand, when proven wrong the holder can simple brush it off by saying ” I didn’t say that I was just questioning”.

The quality of the expert is important, a biological scientist with a proven history of reasearch in the study of evolution is going to take precedence over a professor of theology. The opinion of a structural engineer like Leslie Robertson is going to have great weight over an architect like Richard Gage who as far as anyone can tell has never designed a building over one story. While Robertson actually designed the structural elements of the WTC among other large buildings, the proof of his expertise is in what he has acually done not what he said he did.