Feb
14
RPL
“A good teacher doesn’t merely tell his students that they’re wrong. A good teacher shows his students why they’re wrong so that they don’t make the same mistake twice. He corrects because he cares.” — Tim Barnett
Years ago, I did a series of posts on informal fallacies in logic. Never finished the series, but I did cover quite a few. It isn’t easy to make a subject like that to be both educational and entertaining. But, somebody has…
Over the years, I have referenced and borrowed from the resources by Greg Koukl and Stand to Reason (including for the above-mentioned post series). One of their newer team members is speaker/instructor/columnist Tim Barnett, an affable, rubberfaced fella from Canada. He came up with a new “tool” for teaching about uncritical thinking and logical fallacies — usually expressed by atheists and other skeptics to Christianity — called “Red Pen Logic” (RPL). (He explains the origins of the concept here.)
In essence, he selects a question or comment expressed by someone online that makes a claim and/or challenges something about Christianity or the Bible. Then he makes a brief video (~4-7 minutes) that shows him using his “red pen” (like a teacher or editor) to highlight and correct the bad thinking and other mistakes made by the skeptic. Barnett is a bit goofy and… er… expressive (thus Koukl calling him “rubberface”), but he warns ahead of time that he likes to have fun while teaching the lesson.
He puts out one or two RPL videos per month, so there are only ten or so as of this writing. Here is a sample:
Check ’em all out!
