Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?

[Kernel Sohcahtoa]

Straw manning, and poisoning the well are not exactly intellectual qualities either.

You do realize Steve DID speak for him self on the matter, and his answer is what Simon was responding to?  So, how is that a straw man?  And please identify the "poisoning the well" fallacy here, because I don't think you understand what it means.

In other news, I'm still waiting for you to answer a question I asked you pages ago.   I'll ask again.  Do you think that the testimony in the Bible is high quality, reliable testimony?  Why or why not?

Thank you for this post.  The poisoning the well fallacy seems like a variant of an ad hominem fallacy.

Via Bo Bennett's Logically Fallacious, I find the following fallacies to be interesting, especially as they relate to the common criticisms of  the theistic position that I've observed here on AF: special pleading; failure to elucidate; hedging; appeal to common belief; appeal to heaven; argument from age; proving non-existence; stereotyping. In addition, IMO, the following B-list fallacies are also interesting: amazing familiarity; argument by laziness; argument from design; argument to the future; fantasy projection; god wildcard fallacy; argument from inertia.