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What is a straw man?

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09-28-2003 9:13 AM 		Reply to: Message 3 by crashfrog
09-28-2003 3:51 AM

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Other examples would be claiming that the Theory of Evolution says things that it actually does not. This is where it usually comes up on the board.
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An example occasionally seen:
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"Evolution says that man evolved from monkeys, and there are still monkeys around, so evolution must be wrong."
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