how many of these happen in this forum

[tomdemaine]

I'm pretty sure all of these logical fallicies turn up here every day. This page is about creationism but it's generic enough.

Bad logic (http://www.daltonator.net/durandal/creationism/fallacies.shtml)

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In essence, the strawman attack is putting words in your opponent's mouth and then attacking the resulting position, while simultaenously evading the real argument.

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Not entirely the province of any one side of any disagreement/point of view. As has been pointed out in this forum more than a few times.

Was that the intent of your post? Since you picked the link you did, I have to wonder if it was merely an example.

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[tomdemaine]

The examples were just that I promise /images/graemlins/smile.gif I'm just trying to help a few people out, as you say all sides are guilty of faulty arguments, but we needn't be.

Thank you for clarifying. Lots of luck in your effort.

This link should be stickied:
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html