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Author Topic:   Design evidence # 2piR : circular logic
John
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Message 8 of 13 (31538)
02-06-2003 11:55 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by DanskerMan
02-05-2003 5:57 PM


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- Natural Selection translates into survival of the survivors or the fitness of the fit
Sonnike, which animal do you think is going to make the most babies, the one that lives a few years or the one that only lives a few weeks?
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- Using index fossils to date the rock layers, and then using the rock layers to date the fossils they contain
It doesn't happen that way. Mark24 beat me to this one.
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- Using homology both as explanation of evolution and proof for it
What?
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- Using the geologic column as descriptive of evolution and also as evidence for it
ummm.... what?
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- Assuming long ages for radioactive half-lives, then using them to prove long ages.
Every bit as much as I assume the length of a board by measuring it with a tape measure.
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- Inventing a term as if it explains something: e.g., convergent evolution used as an explanation and an evidence for a Darwinian origin of like characteristics in unlike organisms.
The term doesn't really explain anything. It is just shorthand for a series of causal relationships.
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