A common one that I see works like this: first person holds position A. A second person points out fact B which provides evidence against position A. The first person responds, “I am going to adjust my position to position C: namely that both A and B are true. B is evidence for C, so your argument is now evidence for my position.” Continue as needed.
Example:
First person: The world was created.
Second person: Living things evolved, which makes it less likely that things were created than if they had just appeared from nothing.
First person: The world was created through evolution. Facts implying evolution are evidence for this fact, so your argument now supports my position.
Continuing in this way allows the first person not only to maintain his original position, even if modified, but also to say that all possible evidence supports it.
(The actual resolution is that even if the modified position is supported by the evidence in issue, the modified position is more unlikely in itself than the original position, since the conjunction requires two things to be true, so following this process results in holding more and more unlikely positions.)
A common one that I see works like this: first person holds position A. A second person points out fact B which provides evidence against position A. The first person responds, “I am going to adjust my position to position C: namely that both A and B are true. B is evidence for C, so your argument is now evidence for my position.” Continue as needed.
Example:
First person: The world was created. Second person: Living things evolved, which makes it less likely that things were created than if they had just appeared from nothing. First person: The world was created through evolution. Facts implying evolution are evidence for this fact, so your argument now supports my position.
Continuing in this way allows the first person not only to maintain his original position, even if modified, but also to say that all possible evidence supports it.
(The actual resolution is that even if the modified position is supported by the evidence in issue, the modified position is more unlikely in itself than the original position, since the conjunction requires two things to be true, so following this process results in holding more and more unlikely positions.)
This is counterable, by pointing out that movement has occurred. If done honestly, it constitutes convergence, which is arguably desirable,