“Fallacy (pl. fallacies): In logical arguments, fallacies are either formal or informal. Because the validity of a deductive argument depends on its form, a formal fallacy is a deductive argument that has an invalid form, whereas an informal fallacy is any other invalid mode of reasoning whose flaw is not in the form of the argument.”
— http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

Chunky Monkey is a member of my favourite brainless forum, ManilaTonight. This person isn’t new though. And for reasons that I will not enumerate here, I suspect Chunky Monkey to be an alter-ego of another idiot whom I have written about (*ehem* Negative Numbers *ehem*). But enough of introductions because who this person really is isn’t important. It’s what’s posted by this person in “public” that is worthy of rememberance.

But briefly, this encounter stemmed from a thead called Biblical Fallacies, where people have only enumerated inconsistencies (and generally ideas in bad taste) in some passages in the Bible and went on to flaming each other. I thought it would be nice to remind those people what fallacies actually are and how many of the posts made in the thread exemplify fallacies of one kind or another— the old Argumentum ad Hominem, is of course, very popular.

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