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To: GourmetDan
How about your fallacy of taking a paper about comparing DNA in different species and thinking it was about the frequency of mutations?

Just how ignorant must one be to do that?

1,928 posted on 10/03/2008 3:47:37 PM PDT by allmendream (Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! Sa-RAH! RAH RAH RAH! McCain/Palin2008)
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To: allmendream
"How about your fallacy of taking a paper about comparing DNA in different species and thinking it was about the frequency of mutations? Just how ignorant must one be to do that?"

You don't argue that mutation is not probabilistic because you know that it is. We have already established that you will use the term 'random' when you understand that probabilistic is the correct term to describe mutation. That is the fallacy of equivocation.

I quoted the only science that was done in that article because that was all that was relevant to the question we were discussing. How the mutations achieved the probabilistic distribution found by the study is where the authors committed the fallacy of affirming the consequent. You argue in favor of the fallacy because it is irrelevant to the argument about whether it is appropriate to use the term 'random' when you should use probabilistic.

It's clear that you are the one who doesn't understand the difference between science and fallacy.

1,929 posted on 10/03/2008 4:08:29 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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