[Bosh Flimshaw]

Oh, you dear young man. You misunderstand my purpose in exchanging posts with you: I was not intending to “debate” the merits of young earth creationism with you. I have no more desire to do that than to “debate” whether disease is caused by evil spirits and imbalanced humours, whether the earth actually revolves around the sun or vice versa, or whether phrenology is due for a comeback. I was intending just to mock you and your silly beliefs.

Make no mistake about it: young earth creationism deserves all the mockery it gets, and belongs squarely in the dustbin with nonsense pseudoscience like that above. Pretending that young earth creationism has even the slightest scientific validity or support and therefore even worthy of "debate" is not only amazingly ignorant, but does an incredible disservice to the scientific progress we've made over the last century.

Young earth creationism deserves contempt, because it is based on willful, indeed proud, ignorance of the world around us. A lot of scientists worked incredibly hard, and some paid steep prices, to move western civilization beyond the kind of backward ignorance you espouse. I pity you to a certain extent, but you have no one to blame for your ignorance but yourself.

And, lest we forget, this little exchange all began with your ridiculous statement that “If evolution is true, there is no such thing as morality,” which you have yet to support in any manner whatsoever.