Nesting Presuppositions

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

Not surprisingly, it’s common for irrational people to use presuppositions for persuasion. They can often deceive us this way. Consider the following from a discussion group:

“I don’t know why young-earth creationists refuse to see the obvious evidence that God created the world using billions of years and evolution.”

This persuader nested six presuppositions in one sentence. The persuader used the words “know,” “why,” “refuse,” “see,” and “obvious.” What’s the claim the persuader is presupposing? The persuader is presupposing God created the world using billions of years and evolution. The so-called evidence is phantom evidence, and the persuader used the word “evidence” to presuppose billions of years and molecules-to-humanity evolution. If we answer this persuader completely, we have to refute six presuppositions before we deal with the claim.

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