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To: Ira_Louvin; Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

==“The differences that make us human are more likely due to mutations that were favorable to us in the particular environment into which we moved, and these mutations then accumulated through time.”

I’d be curious to know why Ira’s Temple of Darwin sect considers the quote issued by the above Temple of Darwin sect as being comprised of “straw men and misdirection”???


30 posted on 07/22/2009 9:39:24 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Again with the misdirection, I was pointing out by overlooking that part of the article the poster was setting up a straw man.

“Description of Straw Man

The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person’s actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position. This sort of “reasoning” has the following pattern:

1. Person A has position X.
2. Person B presents position Y (which is a distorted version of X).
3. Person B attacks position Y.
4. Therefore X is false/incorrect/flawed.

This sort of “reasoning” is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position simply does not constitute an attack on the position itself. One might as well expect an attack on a poor drawing of a person to hurt the person.”

As of today you have yet to provide a direct answer to any question that I have asked, other than to fall back on your Temple of Darwin fallacy.

So the avoidance of questions you cannot answer, misdirection, straw men, and ridicule are the only things I see creationist use. But then when that is the best that you have I guess you have to go with it.


60 posted on 07/23/2009 7:51:11 PM PDT by Ira_Louvin (Go tell them people lost in sin, They need not fear the works of men.)
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