Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Logic: You're Doing It Wrong

Interestingly wacked out site pitting "physics" against "darwinism", with physics being "science" becuase it has "equations".

Really.

I hope this guy isn't a physics student, because behavior like this really stinks it up for the rest of us. He's really falling into all the standard tropes of bad reasoning: category errors, revealed truth verses discovery, appeal to authority, circular logic, and lots and lots of just simply misstating results or misunderstanding the point.

As I work to throw together a draft of my book on reasoning skills, I troll a lot of these sites looking for examples. To be honest, it's pretty depressing, there are a lot more of them than I would have feared.

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