Jason "If I only had a brain" Lisle and the straw man fallacy

Eventually it was going to happen. Jason Lisle's litany of defective thought, in which he enacts even more fallacies than he explains, has reached the straw man.

If I had a nickel for every time a straw man appeared on the Answers in Genesis site, I would have enough money to buy hit men enough to take care of New Jersey.

But let's be fair. Fortunately, "fair" is really mean to these people:

It’s a fallacy that just shouldn’t happen—but it does all the time. The straw-man fallacy is when a person misrepresents his opponent’s position and then proceeds to refute that misrepresentation (i.e., the “straw man”) rather than what his opponent actually claims. Here’s an example:

“Creationists do not believe that animals change. But clearly, animals do change. So, creationists are mistaken.”

Want to see something funny? Look up the quote that he is talking about:

Wow. So, like, you're the only person who says that? Not your opponents? What's that called again...A STRAW MAN!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! BLAM! *thud* faessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

You are such an ubertool. Oh, what's that? I just found a nickel. Thanks, Jesus!

But it gets even worse! Seriously:


Check it out! Two CREATIONIST sites! Seriously, Jason. Go out and get a switch. Better yet, I'll meet you behind the shed with a shovel.

If an evolutionist were to claim, “Creationists don’t believe in science,” this would be a straw-man fallacy. Creationists do believe in science. There are several full-time Ph.D. scientists on the Answers in Genesis staff.

This is not a straw man fallacy. Do you think that it is even possible for the Bible to be proven wrong? Of course not. And that's where you get off of the science wagon. Your beliefs are not subject to complete revision. Real scientists' are. They argue from evidence, you argue from conclusion. Don't believe me? Check your next sentence:

I’ve argued on this website, as in my book (The Ultimate Proof of Creation) that biblical creation is what makes science possible.

See? You live in an unburstable bubble of biblical bullshit. You have no respect for the scientific method. (Just because you don't think you do doesn't mean that you don't.) I seriously doubt that you have in intellectual capacity or honesty to understand the scientific method, much less use it. You toss out all of the convergent evidence from cosmology, geology, paleontology, archaeology, anthropology, biology, genetics, radio astronomy, physics, and archaeoclimatology (if that exists) in favor of talking serpents, you feeb. Every last one of your ignorant coworkers is deficient, and if they had any respect for their alma maters, they would never use their crackerjack-prize doctorates, because everything that those degrees stand for, at least from your point of view, is a lie. Looking at the company you keep, your standard of what is a scientist is low enough to include yourself. A well-conditioned rat is a more perceptive student of the world than you and your coworkers are. You are not scientists. Whatever else you are, you are not scientists. That is not a straw man; that is the unflinching judgment passed on you every day by every respected academic on the planet, none of whom gives your life's work a moment's thought.

Absolute. Complete. Total. Perfect. Failure.

HJ