The Fallacy of the False Dilemma

To start, I wanted to go through some of the most common (and often confusing) fallacies in reasoning. The False Dilemma fallacy is a common one I hear across all sorts of discussions. In essence, it surmises that there are only two options, one's own and one's opponent's, ignoring all other possibilities. The reason this is done (to be fair, often unconsciously) is so that if one can point out any error, major or minor, in another's argument, it automatically provides proof and support for one's own argument.

A common approach is the following often heard from fundamental creationists:

"There are only two solutions for the question of how the Universe was created: the Big Bang, which says that the Universe was formed out of nothing from random chance, or Biblical Creation, which gives us a loving, awesome, caring God who wants us to...etc etc."