Logical Fallacy of Rewriting History / Have it Your Way

Whenever a logical fallacy is committed, the fallacy has its roots in Agrippa's trilemma. All human thought (without Divine revelation) is based on one of three unhappy possibilities. These three possibilities are infinite regression, circular reasoning, or axiomatic thinking. This problem is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Some have claimed that only logic and math can be known without Divine revelation; however, that is not true. Without Divine revelation, neither logic nor math can be known. Science is also limited to the pragmatic because of the weakness on human reasoning, which is known as Agrippa's trilemma. Rewriting history is one of the many smokescreens that are used to cover the fact that the reasoning is based on one of the three fallacies of Agrippa's trilemma.

The logical fallacy of rewriting history / have it your way fallacy occurs when events of the past are distorted or just fabricated in any way to support any conclusion. 

Examples of the Logical Fallacy of Rewriting History / Have it Your Way

Bill Nye: "Edwin Hubble was sitting at Mt. Wilson (Some of the misleading vividness has been omitted here) sat there at this very big telescope night after night staring at the heavens, and he found that the stars are moving apart. Stars are moving apart. And he wasn’t sure why, but it was clear that the stars are moving farther and farther apart all the time. So people talked about it for a couple decades."

Bill Nye uses a misrepresentation of what really happened, the logical fallacy of rewriting history. Edwin Hubble didn’t observe stars moving apart. The galaxies, not individual stars, appeared to be moving apart. Cosmic expansion would not appear between stars but between galaxies. Bill Nye repeated this claim 3 times, which makes it unlikely that it was a slip of the tongue. And, Bill Nye’s statement is a common misconception that is often erroneously taught, actually educating people into ignorance. If the galaxies are moving apart, this conflicts with nothing in the account of creation in the Bible, taking it as it is written. There is no conflict. Hubble only assumed a strong correlation between red shifts and distances of galaxies. He observed red shifts. That is all he observed. It is irrational to shoehorn this observation into support for the big bang story. This was actually work that started before Hubble in 1914. However, an important point is that the expansion of the Universe cannot be observed. It is an interpretation of observation. Astronomers are aware that there are other possible interpretations. So, Bill Nye commits the hysteron proteron fallacy by making such a rash claim. He could say that one of the interpretations is that the stars are moving apart but not that it was observed that stars are moving apart.  Going on from there to attributing expansion to the big bang is the fallacy of non sequitur, a conclusion that does not follow the evidence. What was observed can be explained a few different ways through speculation, assumptions, and made-up stories. Made-up stories are very different from Divine revelation, though. We know, by revelation through the Bible, that God stretched out the Heavens, which is a better explanation that fits the observations better. Keep in mind that the Bible mentions, several times, that God stretched out the Heavens. (article)

Sandy: "The church of the Holy Roman Empire did nothing wrong during the Crusades or during the Inquistion."

Casandra: "Are you kidding? Religious people always end up being oppressive. They go on witch hunts and kill anyone who disagrees with them. That is plain in history."

Both Sandy and Casandra are rewriting history. Rewriting history has become a common activity. There had to be a falling away of the Church, and it really happened. And God has been restoring the Church over the last several hundred years, a little bit at a time. But there is a long way to god. But, ungodly people have distorted history equally in exaggerating the abuses of the Holy Roman Empire. What happened was bad enough. The worst thing that happened was that the pattern and process of God for completion of the work of the Church was lost at this time. As a result of that, many wrong things were done. However, Casandra is reflecting the distorted views of the intellectual elite who have an ax to grind against God.