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Re:1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing A... by hhas01 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @04:43AM (#24737543)
People predicted lots of things. You can’t look back and say “oh, they predicted X right” while conveniently ignoring all the other ways they predicted it wrong.

See also: Post hoc ergo propter hoc and Texas sharpshooter fallacies.

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Re:1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing A... by noncoml on Saturday October 10, 2020 @03:44PM (#24741338)
Why can't the same argument be hold for Pre-Socratic philosophers and the "atom"?
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