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In my ongoing series of debates with creationists I have come to understand dogma. Firmly held dogma. Providing facts and links to scientific articles defending natural selection and evolution does no good. Asking questions that will not be answered does no good.
Why do I do it?
My hope is that someday a fence sitter will read through one of my debates and be swayed to the scientific side of the argument. I don’t expect to convert my debate opponents. They have made it very clear that they have made up their minds. Usually they each have one comment they fall on to. Richard Dawkins or Lawrence Krauss quotes taken out of context appear often. Equating science with atheism happens a lot. We keep hearing the same bogus claims over and over. The scientists keep showing why the second law of thermodynamics does not disprove evolution and the creationists keep throwing it back in our face.
I have found one way to make them disappear. I ask them to offer some proof of their theory. Not an argument agains’t evolution but an argument for creation. They either come back with one more tired opposition to evolution or they disappear.
I don’t want to wreck anyones religion. What I want is for the religious to not try to take over the government to take away rights from those who do not support their particular beliefs and I don’t want their religion taught in the science classroom.
Simple.
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Earth Year 2014
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