A claim is an argumentative topic or view. A claim is what your view is against the other arguments.
A support is a reason behind your claim. They are reasons backing up your argument.
Evidence is actual facts on your claim. Evidence is facts n the topic and surrounding topics of your argument.
An explanation is a breakdown of your claim and its support and evidence. An explanation fills any misunderstandings in an argument and wraps your argument up.
1) My immediate response to Crichton’s argument is that this man is crazy. I t makes me think what is the world coming to and feel that people really need to realize who God is because I believe in God and believe anything can happen through environmentalism through him. Something that stuck out to me was him saying that we want to be in a nature but not fully, just for a week or so to get away but in a house by the beach with screens.
2) Crichton’s tone is mad and disgusted. He feels that we are ridiculous by going off of religion and environmentalism instead of science/facts and environmentalism. The purpose of making the
reader feel this way is so that we can think really think about what he is saying and to second guess if what we are already doing is correct.
3) Crichton’s main claim is that we need to abandon environmental religion and to get politics out of the thinking of environmentalism. He makes supporting claims stating what politics did negatively towards the environment and also just stating the fact that we do not know it all and the earth’s function is to complex for us to know it all.
4) He supports his claim by stating facts and telling a story, and history. He uses facts about different parts of the world, Bible information, and how nature truly is without our fantasy view. His evidence supports his claim but to me is exaggerated and some are opinionated.
5) Crichton’s reasons for not citing his sources is that it would probably only impact a few because the convictions of a religion are not dependent on facts, but rather are matters of unshakable faith. I do accept his reasoning g because it is true. Not citing hurts his argument because some
of them sound like opinions and if they were cited we would know for a fact that they were facts and not opinions.
6) His argument is still strong because he has a lot of information on different topics that could come up from his main claim. It is also a strong argument because he has passion for what he is talking about.