Why would that be absurd? If I really believed that anyone who believed in evolution wasn't really a Christian and was going to hell because of that belief, then it doesn't matter who you use, including the pope. You're working on the presumption that he IS a Christian by default or something with the kind of reasoing that if he isn't a Christian and won't make it, then nobody is.
And that's not a scientific argument in support of evolution.
All you can do is say ‘if you disagree with what I interpret the Bible to say, you are calling God a liar’. Sure, me and the Pope, we think God is a liar.And once again this is NOT a scientific argument against evolution.
I never claimed that belief in the Bible is a *scientific* argument against evolution. But the truth is the truth. It doesn't have to qualify as *scientific* to demonstrate that something is wrong.
The only point of evos making that demand is to restrict what they will or will not accept as evidence to disprove the ToE.
And as it stands at the present, evos are so dogmatic in their belief in the ToE that it is beyond their comprehension that any evidence would ever be able to disprove it. They automatically disallow anything that would reflect negatively on it.
The ToE will never be disproved to an evos satisfaction because they won't let it be disproved.
Everyone else has an open mind.
Creationists are incapable of an actual scientific argument against evolution, they rely upon the ULTIMATE appeal to authority as their one and only recourse.
I will only accept science in refutation of a scientific theory. What your religious beliefs are have no bearing upon the scientific discussion.
How dogmatic to not accept YOUR interpretation as the final word! Yes, it is WE who are being dogmatic in constructing a theory that explains the physical facts and enables prediction, but you who dogmatically insist that your interpretation of the Bible is correct despite any and all contrary data; sure it is YOU who have the open mind.
Laughable.