Steven Den Beste Strawman

I was in conversation with someone and the High Frontier came up and
they pooh-poohed it and pointed me to the *definitive debunking*
written by Steven Den Beste. This I had to read, so I went to the URL
and low and behold I come across a strawman stuffed to the limit with
all sorts of assumptions - I immediately thought that Den Beste must
be an alias for Bob Zubrin :)

Anyways, I thought it might be fun for us to play "spot the fallacy"
or "spot the loaded assumption" and compile a comprehensive list of
what's wrong (or right) about the essay.

http://denbeste.nu/entries/00001113.shtml

TangoMan