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So this is my very very rough opinion piece I wrote during the class exercise:

"I don’t want my kids to learn about evolution in school. I think it’s blasphemy. Who are we to believe hard evidence over belief about how the modern universe came to be. I don’t need proof to know something is real, I mean have you heard of vampires, Santa Clause, and the leprechauns? In fact, why don’t we just get rid of science overall? We can replace Biology with Adam and Eve 101, Cosmology with Heaven, and cut mathematics programs after elementary. Who needs that stuff right? Not me cause I have a superior being that makes everything in the world work around me. Science is just something cavemen made up because they didn’t realize they come from intelligent design. Oh wait, I don’t believe in cavemen. In fact, I also don’t believe in dinosaurs because God made Adam and Eve just after he made the world out of nothing so there was no time for the dinosaurs to roam around. Dinosaurs were just made up by heathen scientists to destroy my beliefs. Why don’t they just go attack someone else’s beliefs, they’re the ones who are wrong, no question about it. I mean have you heard of Shiva? The guy with 6 arms and he floats around on a pillow, ridiculous."

As you can see, it's pretty ridiculous and not serious at all. I think some people would definitely find this offensive or enraging as it may seem to them like I am attacking their religion, however, I am not attacking any specific religion, so this paragraph shouldn't alienate anyone who isn't insecure about their religion. I think my focus was more on ideas and opinions of people more than their religion, trying to show them (in a very exaggerated manner, of course) how ridiculous that idea is.

We Are the Champions (of argument)

One of the five logical fallacies that really stood out to me was We're Not Programmed to Seek"Truth," We're Programmed to "Win". Basically, it states that people's opinions are not likely changed when presented with evidence against their arguments, and thus, are not likely to back down from said argument. This is SO true, I could not agree more with it. The biggest example of this is the ongoing debate of evolution vs. creationism. Creationists continue to deny evolution and assert their beliefs despite the unquestionable evidence. I believe that on a smaller scale this has to do with our natural instinct to assert dominance (and since if we asserted dominance the way most animals did we would all be rapists, "winning arguments is the next best thing). This also goes hand in hand with another of the logical fallacies, Facts Don't Change Our Minds, in which... well the title says it all. I honestly don't think that I fall prey to these particular fallacies, I do a pretty good job of accepting when I am wrong, even when it means losing an argument, because either way I gain new knowledge, and I win.