9. Logical Fallacies: The Strawman
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Using Jason Lisle's book, Logic and Faith and Discerning Truth, we go through some of the most common logical fallacies that are used in arguments today. #shorts
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- Eight, the strawman fallacy.
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- This happens all too many times. Strawman fallacy is when a person misrepresents his opponent's position and then proceeds to refute the misrepresentation, the strawman, rather than what his opponent actually claims.
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- Sometimes evolutionists will say something along these lines, creationists do not believe that animals change, but clearly animals do change, so creationists are mistaken.
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- Now what's wrong with that argument? What a creationist doesn't believe is that it changes from one kind to another.
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- The fact that animals change is apparent. I mean, there's a whole industry created for designer dogs, right?
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- You know, you get a poodle with a labrador, you get a poodle with a bernie, everything's a something doodle, right?
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- Because poodles don't shed and they're smart and well we got to get the poodle in there. So that doesn't create a different species, still a dog, okay?
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- So we do believe in change and you know variations in fur, color, height, all that kind of stuff, but the dog doesn't become a cat.
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- A lot of people will say, well you know chimpanzees have 96 percent the same
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- DNA as a human being. So my next question usually is, okay would you get a blood transfusion from them?
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- Think about this, you can't even get a blood transfusion from some other women depending on some other human being based on your blood type.
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- A, A, B, O, you know there's so many different types even within the human species. If you get a different blood and that could cause major problems.
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- So just because something has 96 percent the same DNA doesn't mean they share a common ancestor.
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- What I would say is, well you say they share a common ancestor, I say they share a common creator. So since creationists do believe that animals change, just not from one basic created kind to another, the argument is a straw man fallacy.
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- The straw man does not refute what creationists actually claim. It may be unintentional or it could be that a particular evolutionist simply misunderstands what a creationist is teaching.
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- If the fallacy is deliberate, then it's a dishonest approach, yet it's quite common in debates.
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- Here's an example, they're flat earthers, they don't believe in science, they don't believe in change.
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- If only these creationists had a brain. As Christians, what is one of the biggest straw men that that people hit us with?
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- Especially from, I'll give you a hint, Jehovah's Witnesses. You believe in three gods,
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- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is God, the Holy Spirit is God, Jesus is God, that's three gods.
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- Is that what we believe? No, no. We believe in one God in three persons, right?
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- One essence, one being, three subsistences. So they look at us and they say you believe in three gods, that's a straw man, okay.
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- So they represent your view this way, you believe in three gods, and then they knock it down.
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- See, see how easy that was? And that's what you have to be careful for. So basically it goes like this, this is how to do a straw man fallacy.
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- First, you ignore the real argument, you create a pretend argument, the straw man, you defeat the pretend argument, and you claim victory over the real argument.
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- Then you do a victory dance. See, our position is better because I just annihilated your whole position.