Fallacies Are Tricky

Going through the Nye-Ham debate repeatedly and painstakingly transcribing the entire debate, the wealth of fallacies became obvious. Without truth, fallacy is the only possible course. Without truth, the path leads only to the land of make-believe. All truth is hidden in Christ Jesus. The human mind has no path in itself to truth. The human mind can make up stuff, and it can use fallacies to give the illusion that made-up stuff is real stuff. From there, it can develop dogmatically-held opinions, strong emotions, and block-headedness. It can become self-righteous and proud. It can’t find truth other than by turning to Christ.
 
Innuendo is accomplished by leaving out parts of the logic. Often, the conclusion is left out. Sometimes, parts of the premise aren’t stated. The result is a claim that’s implied or a claim that’s stated while the proof is implied. This does two things. It makes it more difficult to evaluate the logic. It forces us to guess about the missing parts of the logic. It also provides an escape for the person committing the fallacies since that person can always create another scenario. In the end, the audience is left confused, and that’s just where Satan wants them.
 
The debate was filled with magick and illusion. Ken Ham occasionally made unfinished statements that used innuendo, but Bill Nye used innuendo with very few exceptions. It was difficult to find any other fallacies that Ken Ham fell into, but every claim Bill Nye made was nested in layers of fallacies. The difference was stark.
 
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circular reasoning.
 
“You can look at these rocks. You can look at rocks that are younger. You can go to seashores where there is sand. This is what geologists on the outside do, study the rate at which soil is deposited at the end of rivers and deltas, and we can see that it takes a long, long time for sediments to turn to stone.” (Bill Nye)
 
Bill committed an allness fallacy, making a strong statement without a way to prove that the statement was true. He hid the allness fallacy underneath the smokescreen of circular reasoning. Bill can’t prove his claim that “it takes a long, long time for sediments to turn to stone.” Here’s the hidden circular reasoning smokescreen Bill used to hide the allness fallacy.
 
If we were to assume no Genesis Flood, then we would assume slow processes. [hidden presupposition]
 
Slow processes take a long time.
 
Therefore, the Genesis Flood didn’t happen, and billions of years did happen. [unstated conclusion]
 
Though Bill implied all of this irrational thought using innuendo, we’ve exposed the circular reasoning to show that Bill’s statement assumes what’s he’s trying to prove. By making an incomplete statement of his reasoning, Bill left us guessing about the other parts of his logic. We tried to fill in the blanks here, but he has a hedge to deny that he was using circular reasoning. We may not be able to think of another way to interpret his statement, but there may be another way. However, our pilgrimage isn’t about Bill Nye, evolutionism, or old-earthism. It’s about reason, and we’re looking at an example of how circular reasoning can be hidden by using incomplete statements.
 
Through scientific research, God has revealed that rock forms quickly under conditions like those in the Genesis Flood, so Bill isn’t telling the truth when he implies that rocks must form slowly. To arrive at his implication, he’s using selective evidence. As far as whether some rocks form over periods too long to observe, we can’t know since the periods are too long to observe. Obviously, we can’t observe periods too long for us to observe, so statements about millions of years don’t come from science. However, we do observe rocks forming quickly. To put it another way, we can prove that rocks do form quickly using the scientific method, but we can’t prove rocks form over millions of years using the scientific method.
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