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The junkyard tornado, sometimes known as Hoyle's fallacy, is a fallacious argument formulated by Fred Hoyle against Earth-based abiogenesis and in favor of panspermia.The junkyard tornado argument has been taken out of its original context by theists to argue for intelligent design, and has since become a mainstay in the rejection of evolution by religious groups, even though Fred Hoyle ...
This is known as "the junkyard tornado", [41] or "Hoyle's Fallacy". Those who advocate the intelligent design (ID) philosophy sometimes cite Hoyle's work in this area to support the claim that the universe was fine tuned to allow intelligent life to be possible.
Naturalistic fallacy fallacy is a type of argument from fallacy. Straw man fallacy – refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. [110] Texas sharpshooter fallacy – improperly asserting a cause to explain a cluster of data. [111]
Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different ...
High-speed rail’s ‘sunk-cost fallacy’ — spending good money on what is not working | Opinion. Andrew Fiala. January 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM. Human beings do not respond rationally to “sunk ...
Jul. 26—Recently, U.S. Representative Val Hoyle (OR-04) voted against the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act. After the NDAA passed in the U.S. House Armed Services Committee with ...
Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, who was an atheist, anti-theist and advocate of the panspermia theory of life, [n 1] is reported as having stated that the "probability of life originating on Earth is no greater than the chance that a hurricane, sweeping through a scrapyard, would have the luck to assemble a Boeing 747." [2]
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