Point refuted a thousand times
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A point refuted a thousand times, commonly abbreviated as PRATT, is a common phrase on internet forums where debates have a tendency to recycle over and over again. Once people have refuted a point the first thousand times, it's hard for them to muster the motivation to do it again. Once someone has labelled an argument a PRATT, that usually means they have no interest in discussing it.
The website talk.origins acts as a repository of PRATTs commonly used by creationists, and presents (usually in great detail) their refutations and science behind them. The site is a good starting point for when a PRATT is mentioned.
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[edit] Examples of PRATTs
Most of these are blatantly false assertions with no positive evidence to back them up.
- Evolution theory is inseparable from social Darwinism.[1]
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves evolution.[2]
- The fossil record gives us no transitional forms.[3][4]
- Atheism is a belief system.
- Atheism is a direct cause of lawless behavior.[5]
- Religion is a direct cause of lawlessness, terrorism, war, and other destructive behavior (it's a bit more complicated than that).
- Religion is a direct cause of charity, morality, and social stability (it's also a bit more complicated than that).
- Evolutionism is a religion.[6]
- Faith healing has produced documented results.
- Liberal theology is wrong because it caused an alteration in moral attitudes to make them incompatible with conservative moral codes (e.g., the Wedge Document).
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