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|apologist=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Dismissal of apologists' use of new data as simply a desperate ploy''' </font>—When the facts don't stack up in the critics' favor, simply imply that apologists are executing a desperate ploy to try and distract you.<br> | |apologist=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Dismissal of apologists' use of new data as simply a desperate ploy''' </font>—When the facts don't stack up in the critics' favor, simply imply that apologists are executing a desperate ploy to try and distract you.<br> | ||
|beg the question=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''The author is begging the question''': </font>—Critics will often assume what they are trying to prove in how they frame questions or describe issues.<br> | |beg the question=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''The author is begging the question''': </font>—Critics will often assume what they are trying to prove in how they frame questions or describe issues.<br> | ||
| + | |incomprehensible=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''The argument is illogical''' </font>—The critic's argument makes absolutely no logical sense.<br> | ||
| caricature=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Caricature believers' arguments''' </font>—Rather than accurately report and respond to a statement offered by a believer, the critic misrepresents it and then criticizes their own straw man version.<br> | | caricature=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Caricature believers' arguments''' </font>—Rather than accurately report and respond to a statement offered by a believer, the critic misrepresents it and then criticizes their own straw man version.<br> | ||
| change opinion=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Believers aren't allowed to change their opinions''': </font>—If believers don't abandon their faith because of the critics' arguments, they are "ignoring the evidence." When believers change their opinions as new data become available, the critics declare that this means the believers are being inconsistent or caving in.<br> | | change opinion=<font style="color: white; background: red"> '''Believers aren't allowed to change their opinions''': </font>—If believers don't abandon their faith because of the critics' arguments, they are "ignoring the evidence." When believers change their opinions as new data become available, the critics declare that this means the believers are being inconsistent or caving in.<br> | ||
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