Tag: circular reasoning

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Alfred Adler, Andreas Wagner, biology, bird beaks, Charles Darwin, circular reasoning, Darwinism, ENCODE project, evidence, evolution, explanatory power, François Jacob, frogs, genome, homologous features, inferiority complex, irrefutable belief systems, Karl Marx, Karl Popper, philosophy of science, psychologists, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Dobzhansky}

Why Evolution Is Undeniable

_{Daniel Witt
July 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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The challenges continue to pile up, but the pile never gets any bigger because each piece of contrary evidence is reinterpreted for “general reasons.” Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bias, causal circularity, cells, circular reasoning, codons, common ancestor, cysteine, DNA, genetic code, helicase, histidine, mind, natural processes, nucleotides, Phys.org, PNAS, proteins, replication, RNA world, topoisomerase, transcription, translation}

Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

_{Brian Miller
January 27, 2025

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

6}

This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
November 5, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animation, circular reasoning, common descent, evolution, homology, intelligent design, laughter, learning, Long Story Short, species, weekend, YouTube videos}

“Long Story” Sunday: Why Homology Can’t Be Used as Evidence for Evolution

_{Emily Sandico
November 5, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

How has your weekend been so far? There's still time to spice it up with a little laughter and learning. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 7, 2023

Categories
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, circular reasoning, creationism, creationists, dating, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran Period, evolution, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gregory Retallack, hype, India, interpretation, paleomagnetography, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, Precambrian, radiometric dating, rocks, South Australia, stratigraphy, University of Florida, University of Oregon, zircon}

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

_{Günter Bechly
July 7, 2023

Geology, Paleontology

6}

The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, Arthur Hunt, bacterial flagella, biological structures, circular reasoning, Conservation of Information, design detection, Douglas Axe, evolution, Günter Bechly, information, intelligent design, James Madison University, mind, molecular machines, natural selection, Ola Hössjer, Panda's Thumb, Robert J. Marks II, rotary motors, royal flush, specified complexity, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

In Critiquing Dembski, Jason Rosenhouse Prioritizes Imagination over Reality

_{Brian Miller
July 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

7}

Rosenhouse’s belief in the creative power of evolutionary processes is based not on hard data but on his faith in the philosophy of scientific materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Eric H. Anderson

Date
February 25, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Mousetrap for Darwin, Casey Luskin, chloroquine resistance, circular reasoning, evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Laurence Moran, Michael Behe, Milky Way, Plasmodium falciparum, PZ Myers, Robert L. Summers, Sandwalk, Sean Carroll, Stephen Jay Gould, The Edge of Evolution, University of Toronto}

How Much Can Evolution Really Accomplish?

_{Eric H. Anderson
February 25, 2022

Biochemistry, Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

Unsatisfied with circular evolutionary arguments and lazy reasoning, Michael Behe decided to pose his question to the real-world data. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, circular reasoning, Darwinian gradualism, evolution, fossil record, homology, mutations, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Dawkins, Top Scientific Problems with Evolution (series)}

Darwin’s One Wrong Argument

_{Jonathan Wells
February 18, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences

2}

Fom the standpoint of empirical science, continued claims that the evidence for evolution is “incontrovertible” might be better termed one long bluff. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, circular reasoning, common ancestry, Dogs, evolution, Explore Evolution, homology, humans, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Khan Academy, limbs, students, teachers, vertebrates, whales}

Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

_{Casey Luskin
February 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circular reasoning, Darwin's House of Cards, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, Evans et al. (2021), evolutionary biology, Facebook, Gregory Retallack, Ikaria, lichen, marine protozoans, Mary Droser, muscles, nervous system, paleontology, Precambrian House of Cards Series, Tom Bethell, Tree of Life, Tribrachidium, trilobozoans, University of Oregon}

Evans et al. (2021): All Four Examples Debunked

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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Evans et al. (2021) seem to have been well aware of the circular reasoning in their argument. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, biological information, circular reasoning, evolutionary processes, gene duplication, gene fission, gene fusion, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, natural processes, No Free Lunch theorems, β-lactamase}

Mistakes Our Critics Make: Limits of Evolutionary Processes

_{Brian Miller
July 3, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

The evolution of many complex traits, such as echo location in whales, requires the modification or creation of numerous proteins, physical structures, and neural connections. Read More ›