SeekFind

is a YEC Christian evangelical webshite,http://www.seekfind.net/AboutSeekFindnet.html with terrible graphic design. It is most notable for its collection of fallacies, which are partly correct and partly strawmen of atheist positions. Luckily, the site is not very popular.http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/seekfind.net
==Fallacious explanations of fallacies==
SeekFind manages to use several fallacies in its explanations of fallacies.
===Word Magic===
For example, its "Logical Fallacy of Word Magic" page writes:http://www.seekfind.net/Logical_Fallacy_of_Word_Magic.html
The author implies that the only reason people believe in these things is that there are words for them, ignoring the massive evidence for each. The author continues:
This argument is essentially moving the goalposts: You say you don't believe in God, but you merely don't recognize him, so you're not truly an atheist. The author continues:
Many theists might base their belief on personal revelation; however, personal revelation to the theist is entirely irrelevant to the atheist. Further, many theists attempt to prove that God exists purely through logic, such as the ontological argument.
===Argument to the Future===
SeekFind's "Argument to the Future" page writes:http://www.seekfind.net/Argument_to_the_Future__Escape_to_the_Future.html
SeekFind ignores both (a) that evidence exists in the present and that (b) the history of the science of evolution has shown only increasing support for it as a theory; for example, there is no reason to believe that fewer transitional fossils will be found. It also ignores that of course molecules turned into people — every person born is made of molecules and has been from conception (and even before that). Even Young-Earth Creationism would be hard-pressed to suggest that the mud that God turned into Adam didn't contain molecules.
===Appeal to probability===
SeekFind's "Appeal to Possibility" page utilizes two fallacious examples:http://www.seekfind.net/Logical_Fallacy_of_Appeal_to_Possibility__Appeal_to_Probability.html
In this, SeekFind explicitly sets up a strawman of evolutionist positions. Very few evolution supporters would actually say what "Sandy" states; instead, most look towards the massive amounts of evidence in favor of common descent. It is ridiculous to cast all of the research that evolutionary scientists have done for the past 150-odd years as nothing but an appeal to possibility. Hell, even the Lenski experiment by itself provides almost enough evidence to believe that evolution by natural selection occurs.
SeekFind continues:
SeekFind appeals to popularity. Simply because many Christians say something or believe something does not make it true! As counterexamples, consider that millions of Muslims or Hindus may believe that their respective gods had roles in their respective lives, rather than YHWH, and millions of atheists may argue that they feel the "absence" of YHWH in their lives, though Christianity will argue that all of those worldviews are wrong. If Christianity can use an argumentum ad populum but the others can't, then that's a case of special pleading. Furthermore, an appeal to popularity is fundamentally based on an appeal to probability (the exact fallacy that SeekFind is trying to explain) — "so many people believe X; it's unlikely that they're all wrong".
===Insignificant===
SeekFind's "Insignificant" page writes:http://www.seekfind.net/Logical_Fallacy_of_Insignificant__Insignificant_Cause__Genuine_but_Insignificant_Cause.html
While it does explain why anthropogenic global warming is supposedly not the most significant cause, it's incorrect in that the page is almost a Gish-gallop of global warming denialist talking points, none of which are true.
===Circular reasoning===
Instead of using the Bible to support God or God to support the Bible, SeekFind tells us to use personal knowledge that can't be verified to anyone else. Right.
==Stopped clock moment==
SeekFind's "appeal to pragmatism fallacy" page writes (emphasis added):http://www.seekfind.net/Appeal_to_Pragmatism_Fallacy__Pragmatic_Fallacy__Appeal_to_Convenience__Pragmatism__Appeal_to_Utility__Argumentum_Ad_Convenientiam.html
==See also==
*Nizkor Project
*Fallacy Files
*Your Logical Fallacy Is
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==References==
Category:Fallacy collections
Category:Fundamentalist Christian websites