A Critic Asks: Doesn't Our C. elegans Video Commit the Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy?

A few points relevant to the new release, "How to Build a Worm," from Discovery Institute:

1. Does the video about C. elegans employ illicit "backwards" reasoning?

"How wise of the Creator," a lady is said to have remarked to a philosopher in an apocryphal exchange, "to have designed all the major rivers of Europe to run through its main cities." "And our noses were perfectly placed," a friend of hers added, "to support our spectacles."

Struck speechless by this double-barreled blast of blis...