Admitting a Small Fault to Cover a Big Denial
The Admitting a Small Fault to Cover a Big Denial Fallacy occurs when a minor issue is conceded in order to be dogmatic about a huge error. This is a fallacy of distraction.
Examples of the Admitting a Small Fault to Cover a Big Denial
“We [those who hold the Big-Bang-Billions-of-Years-No-Flood-Molecules-to-Man story as a sacred cow] don’t know the exact way that life started yet. However, we know that life started spontaneously.”
The thing that is being covered up here is the fact that they are making the whole thing up. It's just a story with the magic word, science, and the magic word, evidence, applied to it.
“Yes, I smoked marijuana, but I never inhaled.”
How can we know anything about anything? That’s the real question
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