The false dichotomy assumes that intellectual and scientific discourse is analogous to a football game in that the team that doesnt lose will win by default.
This, of course, is not how science works and asserting so boarders on the intellectually criminal.
Needless to say, a false dichotomy is easily defeated and ownership of the YEC can be taken with the greatest of expedience.
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