(October 26, 2014 at 9:09 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I'm rejecting the argument both because the man who made it has no relevant qualifications that would lead him to know anything about the subject, and because he has proclaimed loudly and proudly, through both word and deed, that he will twist or reject any evidence that doesn't match the presupposition he already has.
You can sling accusations of fallacy all day long, but when you're strawmanning so blatantly- and deleting the bulk of my post to do it, I might add!- it kinda just rings out as projection.
Unless the basis of WLC argument is his own authority.....you are committing the ad hominem fallacy by outright rejecting it. You may have good reason to not like WLC but that alone isn't sufficient reason to say a particular argument WLC makes must be bad.....so when you do so....it is you who loses credibility....not WLC.
