tarasan
Well-Known Member
I have been debating people on the internet for a while and one thing has begun to discourage me from debating here and that with the "easy access to ideas".
let me go into this view with an example. say you are an evolutionist discussing a creationist and they sight a source from some website and portray that as evidence. Now you know the answer is wrong but because you yourself can only sight internet websites it seems like the debate from the onlookers perspective, has an equal number of "respectable" sources.
Now perhaps im over reacting to this incident I had but i wanted your guys opinion.
should we really only accept books and author qualifications when it comes to sources?
or do we need some kind of academic standard when it comes to distinguishing a good source from a bad? Im saying this because there is such a standard in Academia.... not so much on a forum like this..
let me go into this view with an example. say you are an evolutionist discussing a creationist and they sight a source from some website and portray that as evidence. Now you know the answer is wrong but because you yourself can only sight internet websites it seems like the debate from the onlookers perspective, has an equal number of "respectable" sources.
Now perhaps im over reacting to this incident I had but i wanted your guys opinion.
should we really only accept books and author qualifications when it comes to sources?
or do we need some kind of academic standard when it comes to distinguishing a good source from a bad? Im saying this because there is such a standard in Academia.... not so much on a forum like this..