Here's something for both sides in these ATM discussions to keep in mind, a list of many different types of logical fallacies.

Logical fallacies:

http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html

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Another site.

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A link on Burden of Proof, kindly provided by NC More.

Burden of Proof.

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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.~ Carl Sagan ~

Humanity must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will we fully understand the world in which we live.~Socrates, 500 B.C. ~

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him. ~Albert Einstein~

A link The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies from Argos.

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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.~ Carl Sagan ~

Humanity must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will we fully understand the world in which we live.~Socrates, 500 B.C. ~

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him. ~Albert Einstein~