re: Does anyone actually believe this

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think the problem here is that you didn't believe me when I told you pages ago that I wasn't going to argue with you.

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You're pulling a Sleeping Tiger here (no offense to him) in saying that you haven't been arguing. You've consistently challenged me, and I've responded to the challenge.

This is called an argument.

What you won't have is: Producing evidence.

This is where it comes in that I don't believe you to be intellectually honest.

You are clearly not in search for truth, and clearly have your mind made up beforehand. Which is why I challenged you: What would convince you?

You won't answer that, because you know you're in trouble already regarding facts. This isn't an assumption, and it's not solely an appeal to authority -- but you are in a statistical minority both with laymen and experts. My challenge stands, but you're free to bow out of an argument "you weren't taking place in ( )".