Dodging by Answering a Different Question / Answering a Question That Was Not Asked

Dodging by Answering a Different Question / Answering a Question That Was Not Asked occurs when a question is dodged by answering a different question. Often, this is accompanied by misleading vividness, false bravado, and red herring fallacies.

Examples of Dodging by Answering a Different Question / Answering a Question That Was Not Asked

Roxanne: "Without any assumptions or stories, what evidence have you personally seen that proves that the Big-Bang-Billions-of-Years-No-Flood-Molecules-to-Man story actually happened?"

Sandra: "We have observed speciation."

Sandra didn't answer the question. No one asked about speciation, and speciation certainly doesn't prove that the sacred cow story actually happened.

Roxanne: "Without any assumptions or stories, what evidence have you personally seen that proves that the Big-Bang-Billions-of-Years-No-Flood-Molecules-to-Man story actually happened?"

Sandra: "I have seen evidence, but you base everything on faith."

The likelihood is that Sandra is merely trolling, from the insincerity that she displays.