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And again AIG confuses evolution with cosmology. Even if there was no big bang, evolution would work just as we see it working today. And here's the fallacy they depend on to "refute" the big bang:

  1. If the big bang is true, then we would expect to see a cosmic microwave background.
  2. We do see a cosmic microwave background.
  3. Therefore, the big bang must be true.
This big bang supporter has failed to consider other possible causes for the cosmic microwave background. His argument is an example of the fallacy of affirming the consequent.

This represents ignorance of the way science works. LeMaitre predicted that there would be background radiation of a particular spectrum if the big bang had occurred. Much later, the predicted radiation was detected.

Science doesn't prove things; it merely seeks to see if predictions of a theory are true. Since the precise spectrum of the predicted background radiation was found afterwards, this is powerful evidence that the big bang is true.

Addressing a secondary error in the paper, AIG suggests that DNA phylogenies showing the evolutionary descent of living things on Earth merely show "a common designer." But this falls apart when we look at things like the vitamin C gene in humans, which is broken and not functional. Why would a "designer" design a broken gene and insert it into our genomes? And that's not the worst of it for a designer. Guinea pigs and primates other than humans have broken vitamin C genes, but primates all have the gene broken in the same way, indicating common descent for all primates, but not for primates and Guinea pigs. There are many such cases where defects in our genes show common descent.
 
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