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[Deus Ex Machina]

Sam Stainsby [sam at stainsby.id.au] wrote:
> http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html:
> "The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a 
> person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or 
> misrepresented version of that position."
> 
> Well I think this thread ends here for me. You keep setting up those 
> glib strawman arguments like "so now you are saying the whole of 
> scientific progress is bunk" or "ability has a normal ditribution" 
> [sic]. I can only assume that you are simply trolling for an ever 
> divergent argument in some vain hope that you can 'win' something 
> somewhere. What a shame we don't have a rating system on this forum or 
> this might have ended much earlier :-)
> 
> I've never been to a forest rave personally, but I do have a PhD in 
> particle physics. I'll leave you to your one-dimensional world of 
> mathematical curves and go back to the real world.

go right ahead, make your snide little ad-hominems, maybe it makes you
feel better.