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| | FOSSILS AND ROCKS: CIRCULAR REASONING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | "Circular reasoning" is a method of false logic, by which "this is used to prove that, and that is used to prove this." It is also called "reasoning in a circle." Over a hundred years ago it was described by the phrase, circulus in probando, which is Latin for "a circle in a proof." |
 | | There are several types of circular reasoning found in support of evolutionary theory. |
 | | This is where the suspicion of circular reasoning crept in, because it seemed to the layman that the time units were abstracted from the geological column, which has been put together from rock units."*J.E. O'Rourke, "Pragmatism vs. Materialism in Stratigraphy," American Journal of Science, January 1979, p. |
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