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Tag Archives: ad hoc fallacies
Anti-vaccers, climate change deniers, and anti-GMO activists are all the same
I imagine that quite a few people were upset by the title for this post, so let me explain what I mean, and please hear me out before you sharpen your pitchforks. The arguments used by all three of these … Continue reading →
Posted in Global Warming, GMO, Nature of Science, Vaccines/Alternative Medicine
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Tagged ad hoc fallacies, anecdotal evidence, anti vaccine arguments, appeal to authority fallacies, appeal to nature fallacies, autism, cherry picking, conflict of interest, evaluating evidence, global climate change, GMOs, peer-reviewed studies, Vaccines
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Don’t mistake an assumption for a fact
I want you to imagine for a minute that you have been selected for jury duty, and you are sitting in the courtroom listening to the evidence. As you watch, the prosecution calls an expert forensic scientist to the stand, … Continue reading →
Sinking Noah’s Ark Part 2: The Order of the Fossil Record Confirms Evolution’s Predictions
In this post, I am going to explain a line of evidence that both convincingly supports evolution and refutes the notion of a world-wide flood. I am, of course, referring to the ordering of the fossil record. If you go … Continue reading →
Posted in Science of Evolution
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Tagged ad hoc fallacies, Bad arguments, creationism, evidence of evolution, evolution
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Sinking Noah’s Ark Part 1: Introduction
There has recently been a lot of hype over Answers in Genesis opening its latest attraction, the “Ark Encounter.” This life sized “replica” of Noah’s Ark is intend to be a tool to help spread the message of young earth … Continue reading →
Posted in Science of Evolution
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Tagged ad hoc fallacies, creationism, evidence of evolution, logical fallacies, theistic evolution
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Global warming isn’t natural, and here’s how we know
The cornerstone argument of climate change deniers is that our current warming is just a natural cycle, and this claim is usually accompanied by the statement, “the planet has warmed naturally before.” This line of reasoning is, however, seriously flawed … Continue reading →
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