I am appalled.
As a Christian I am under no obligation to support sophistry, confusion, manipulation and outright falsehood by other Christians. Some would say that it is my duty to judge truly on this earth. My fairly-well-informed judgement is that Berlinski’s piece and his comment in response to Derbyshire are manipulative rhetoric, not arguments.
As a Christian, a geologist and a student of critical thinking, it pains me to see just how bad his work and the comments of his supporters are.
There is only one way to be honest and at the same time a literal creationist: you must believe that God created evidence for an old earth and evolution. Honest men and women have spent many combined lifetimes using honestly recorded observations and honestly developed arguments to get to the current state of knowledge.
Don’t imagine, fellow believers, that faith and vehemence substitute for truthfulness.
