Scoffers

"For at least the last two hundred years, the Western world has openly scoffed (mocked) at Christians and at their beliefs about the Bible. Scoffing is basically argument by ridicule, an approach that the religious leaders of Jesus' day often took to His teaching (Luke 16:14, 23:35). Much of the scoffing, or ridicule, Christians receive today comes from those who have rejected the Bible's history, especially in Genesis 1-11. Those who scoff at Christianity, such as atheistic evolutionists or sceptics, often ridicule Christians who accept the belief in the supernatural creation of the world and a global Flood by calling them "fundamentalists," "anti-intellectuals," "extremists," and "literalists." Or they use other disparaging remarks like "dishonest," "ignorant," or "stupid" to describe those who argue for the biblical creation position. These sorts of arguments are known as epithet fallacies. Rather than using sound logical argumentation, they use biased emotional language to support a conclusion that is logically unproven in order to capitalize on people's emotions. Logical fallacies are often seductive and tend to be persuasive for many people because they are very subtle. The news media, internet, and evolutionary literature are full of these emotionally charged arguments (often without making a logical case for their argument) against Christians and the Bible"--