Table 5 Examples of slippery slope arguments in creationist writings
From: Argumentation and fallacies in creationist writings against evolutionary theory
Citation | Type | Science content | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
“…rejection of the biblical record, especially the doctrine that all humans descended from the first man and woman, Adam and Eve, leads to Darwinism, and evolution leads to racism and eugenics.” | YEC | Yes | Bergman [2012] |
“(Darwinism) directly led to the rise of Eugenics… Eugenics has been used as a justification of coercive state-sponsored discrimination and human rights violations, such as forced sterilization of persons with genetic defects, the killing of the institutionalized and, in some cases, genocide…” | YEC | Yes | Brace [2006] |
“The extension of the Darwinist theory into morality can lead to morally questionable consequences, such as fetal diagnostics aiming to eliminate the handicapped, abandoning handicapped people, or even to genocide ‘as a part of the realization of natural selection’.” | ID/OEC | Yes | Puolimatka [2009], 477 |