(September 27, 2015 at 12:12 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(September 27, 2015 at 12:05 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Shooting the messenger, right? Quite possibly ad hominem as well. What do I win??
Boru
A moment to reconsider whether dismissing an argument because of its source is an intelligent thing to do.
*chuckle* Gotcher. I didn't commit any logical fallacy, since Wiker's motives (given his publication history, his background, and the fact that he works for The Discovery Institute) are a priori inimical to Dawkins' position. Ad hominem is not always a fallacy. This is one of those cases.
Boru
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