It's an argument to show that only the most extremist religious nutjobs still deny evolution.
That's quite a profound religious statement you made there.
Yup. They make a "science" out of insulting the other people.
Ofcourse it is not science per se. It is an "art of being right" It should be double quotation mark there, as it is deeply duplicite language devised by Shoppenhauer. It is like the modus operandi of every evolutionist. I guess they use all of the intructions written there in our little dialogue.
This list is a list of a proffesional winner in dialogue by dirty dirty tricks:
The following lists the 38 stratagems described by Schopenhauer, in the order of their appearance in the book:
The Extension (Dana's Law)
The Homonymy
Generalize Your Opponent's Specific Statements
Conceal Your Game
False Propositions
Postulate What Has to Be Proved
Yield Admissions Through Questions
Make Your Opponent Angry
Questions in Detouring Order
Take Advantage of the Nay-Sayer
Generalize Admissions of Specific Cases
Choose Metaphors Favourable to Your Proposition
Agree to Reject the Counter-Proposition
Claim Victory Despite Defeat
Use Seemingly Absurd Propositions
Arguments Ad Hominem
Defense Through Subtle Distinction
Interrupt, Break, Divert the Dispute
Generalize the Matter, Then Argue Against it
Draw Conclusions Yourself
Meet Him With a Counter-Argument as Bad as His
Petitio principii
Make Him Exaggerate His Statement
State a False Syllogism
Find One Instance to the Contrary
Turn the Tables
Anger Indicates a Weak Point
Persuade the Audience, Not the Opponent
Diversion
This Is Beyond Me
Put His Thesis into Some Odious Category
Don't Let Him Off the Hook
Will Is More Effective Than Insight
Bewilder Your opponent by Mere Bombast
A Faulty Proof Refutes His Whole Position
Become Personal, Insulting, Rude (argumentum ad personam)
Defense Through Subtle Distinction - It is not one gene it is 15. It could be 100000. It does not matter at all. It is all to make other people and the audience more aggresive because saying things that might be true but are irrelevant to the talk is just rude.
Or thet say - Hemoglobine is a part of breathing, and not breathing in stand alone. Yes the essential part in it - so it could not be without most of the case. Such a behaviour makes no sense but to derail your opponents by dirty tricks and to make him angry.
Put His Thesis into Some Odious Category - They use it allllll the time they lose the argument. They laugh out of God. I could be as well an atheist denying evolution- it would not change anything. It is dirty and foul trick.
Make Him Exaggerate His Statement - like - you deny all science.... Ofcourse noone can deny irrefutable statements if they are irrefutable - thats so dirty and foul what they do...
Draw Conclusions Yourself - You see - they say? You do not know science - they say. And do not describe why you draw that conclusion. Those conclusions are not based on the dialogue it is just foul.... Just a trickery of language of applying to audience to slander people. You cannot argue with conclusion being your argument it is just a foul trickery language.
Or they say - it is not a circular logic - and does not argue why had he concluded that. That was his conclusion - it is not the conclusion of out the definition of the word or his reasoning behind it. While if one is dependant on each other to prove itself is a circular logic - he should have explain one can stand alone and would still be true.
Arguments Ad Hominem - self explanatory
Will is More Effective Than Insight - describtion of it:
"There is another trick which, as soon as it is practicable, makes all others unnecessary. Instead of working on your opponent's intellect by argument, work on his will by motive; and he, and also the audience if they have similar interests, will at once be won over to your opinion, even though you got it out of a lunatic asylum; for, as a general rule, half an ounce of will is more effective than a hundred-weight of insight and intelligence."
It is like they read their manual and apply it... They say you just want this that or other thing. You just want this or that is why you do not agree with me. What? How do you know what do I want?
Those snakey people know people will to be in the winning club. So they appeal to their emotions saying - everyone thinks like we do... That is just satanic you know?
Claim Victory Despite Defeat - Not just dirty and foul. It is weird thing to do as well.
Those are their favourite.