Assertion: "Text-A evolved from Text-B".
Question: "Do you have a copy of Text-B?"
Answer: "No. I heard it from a credible source."
Question: "You haven't looked at Text-B, but, you heard that it's true?"
Answer: "Yes. From a credible source."
Question: "How would you know if the source is wrong or has omitted important details?"
Answer: "You can't handle the
truth. You've been indoctrinated by your religion and are afraid to examine the facts that I have brought."
Question: "Have you forgotten what it's like to be skeptical? Do you remember how it feels to doubt?"
Answer: "These are academic facts. You are denying them."
Question: "What facts have I denied?"
Answer: "All of the facts that I have brought."
Question: "The facts that you heard? You heard that Text-A evolves from Text-B?
Answer: "Yes, it's a fact that Text-A evolved from Text-B. It comes from a credible source."
Question: "Why haven't you looked at Text-A and Text-B to compare?"
Answer: "I heard it from a credible source."
Question: "How do you know that the source did not make a mistake?"
Answer: "They are credible. You are denying it."
Question: "What am I denying? Are your sources infallible?"
Answer: "They are credible. You are denying it."
Question: "How do you know that the source did not omit important details?
Answer: "They are credible. You are denying it."
Question: "How do you know that the source did not make a mistake?
Answer: "They are credible. You are denying it."
Question: "How do you know that the source did not omit important details?
Answer: "They are credible. You are denying it."
Question: "How do you know that the source did not make a mistake?
Answer: "They are credible. You are denying it."
Question: "How do you know that the source did not omit important details?
Answer: "They are credible. You are denying it."
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