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worldview that attributes origins to evolution
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Secular (also Cosmic or Marxist) Humanism
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"Mr. X is a famous actor and he believes in evolution, so it must be true."
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Appeal to Authority fallacy
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"Mr. X is mean and he believes in evolution, so it can't be true."
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Ad Hominem (Attacking the Man) fallacy
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Things tend toward disorder rather than order.
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
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the process of life forms creating other life forms, demonstrated by Louis Pasteur
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biogenesis
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"Sure, there are gaps in the fossil record, but we will fill them in as we find more fossils.
Meanwhile, evolution is true." |
Appeal to the Future fallacy
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evolutionary theory that species
remain relatively unchanged for long periods of time and then experience great change over a relatively short period of time |
Punctuation Equilibrium
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evolutionary theory that species evolve very slowly over great periods of time
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Gradualism
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