King David's Palace Found

Not exactly modest, is he?

Hey, wasn't there an ossuary found that proves that Jesus existed?

For my example to be a straw man, I would have to be making some kind of argument. I was making no argument; if I was saying anything (and there's no guarantee that I was) I was saying that one should be careful of making profound conclusions prematurely.

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You presented point BO (Bogus Oshuary) as an argument that finds are bogus wich implies you think DP is bogus.

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Uh oh. Are we now going to get into an argument about what I think?I presented "James' Ossuary" to point out that one needs to be careful before one makes unwarranted conclusions. I have no idea whether or not "David's Palace" is bogus (and even if it turns out not to be David's Palace, "bogus" may still be too strong a word); I'm just pointing out that it's a bit early to come to definite conclusions as to whether the discovered ruins are in fact David's Palace.By the way, to be a straw man, I would have to be arguing against a point that the other person did not make. Since I don't know what your point was (I haven't reread the previous posts), I certainly wasn't arguing against it, and therefore was committing no fallacy at all. I was merely giving a warning about being to credulous.Personally, I don't really think a discussion of my intentions or a discussion on the definition of "straw man" would really be all that interesting.

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people are over-zealous to "prove" the bible, often for very modern political reasons and not just faith ones.

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Although it does take some kind of faith to be able to claim that events 3000 years ago should have any relevance to current events.

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it's sort of a "we were here first, so it's our land" kind of thing.

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Yeah, I understand what the argument is. As a white guy in North America, I am very interested in the validity of that kind of reasoning.