(quote from RealReality.org/Real_Faith_and_Reason_Vol_2_-_Scientia.pdf)

During the Nye-Ham debate, Bill said, “they’re making assumptions based on previous experience.” This statement gives a false impression. Bill implies ungodly thinkers pull assumptions from reality. However, they DON’T pull their assumptions from reality. They pull their assumptions from unreality, not from reality.

Unfortunately, many ungodly thinkers find ways to defend their thinking as they base reasoning on assumptions. Ungodly thinkers use assumptions to defend using assumptions as their basis for reasoning. That’s a circular reasoning fallacy. They don’t have much choice unless they give up ungodliness. And since these thinkers convince themselves that whatever they make up becomes magically true, how do we have rational discussions with them? Since they think their assumptions are superior to divine revelation, they take a dogmatic stand on whatever they make up. They blur the distinct line between divine revelation and making up stuff. That is, they lose the distinction between truth and lies. God revealed the difference to them, but they hated the Light and walked into a darkness where they no longer can see. And they “know” those who follow Christ are wrong because we don’t agree with their assumption-based thinking. Then, if we point out that they’re making up stuff, they get louder and more abusive. From there, they begin to use more sophisticated smokescreen fallacies to pretend they’re not just making up stuff and calling the made-up stuff true.

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