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And you can start holding a position instead of claiming omission until the cows come home.
by naniwaduni 6y ago
And you can start holding a position instead of claiming omission until the cows come home.
- mannykannot 6y agoIt is highly apposite that you should mention a Gish gallop in your earlier post: Duane Gish's combination of rhetorical ploys intended to persuade uninformed people that evolution hasn't happened. It includes a combination of burden-shifting, not answering awkward questions, introducing non-sequiturs, and attempting to change the subject, all of which you have already been employing, and which you are now intimating that you intend to continue with. A Gish gallop is not, of course, a sound way to arrive at any sort of truth. Anyone employing the technique is either unaware of that, or is being duplicitous (my guess is that Gish never really understood that it is bogus.) Meanwhile, those questions are still waiting to be milked, so to speak... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25895523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25895523