RE: The code that is DNA
December 30, 2019 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2019 at 1:30 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 30, 2019 at 10:50 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: A clarification that may help going forward:
straw man
1. an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.
Getting your interlocutor's position wrong is not in itself a straw man, it can be an honest mistake, perhaps an inference based on too little information, such as when the other person's actual position is unclear.
Correct, a strawman isn't created by getting my position wrong, but by arguing against a position that is irrelevant to one I'm stating. LfC does think it's easier to defeat me on that separate point, and has already expressed I'll get hammered if I were to take it.
It doesn't matter whether she has my position on creationism right or wrong. It's a strawman because it ignores what I've said on evolution. Hence why I'll gladly state my alternative position was creator monkeys, and it's completely unevidenced.