That means concentrating on, "Do you need a Creator to do the creating, or can nature do it on its own?" and refusing to get sidetracked onto other issues, which people are always trying to do. They’ll ask, "What do you think of Noah’s flood?" or something like that. Never bite on such questions because they’ll lead you into a trackless wasteland and you’ll never get out of it.And the call was heeded. Gone from FR are the overt Young-Earth Creationists. Now we have wall-to-wall "evolution skeptics" who cite anti-E talking points from AnswersInGenesis, cannot be enticed to say what they do believe, and will not absorb a fact shot into them with a .44 magnum.
Perhaps their sole belief is that evolution is false. Lacking positive beliefs themselves, it's all they have to go on.
Yeah, I hadn't really noticed the absence of the 6k-year-old-universe gang. At least they stood for something, and provided endless amusement. The new crowd are grim, humorless, utterly bullet-proof, and they mindlessly recite a mirror-image of our own comments back to us: "You have no facts, you're illogical, you're all lost in your whacko religion, it takes faith to believe in evolution, etc."
However, what I have observed is that the skepticism of many of these so called "evolution skeptics" is not so much the result of detecting any flaws or inconsistencies in the theory but it is mainly induced by the strong desire that it may not be true. And accordingly, many of them are using arguments from consequence when they attack evolution.
On the other hand I don't know how many proponents of evolution argue against creationism because they don't want it to be true.
Whoa, good observation!That means concentrating on, "Do you need a Creator to do the creating, or can nature do it on its own?" and refusing to get sidetracked onto other issues, which people are always trying to do. They’ll ask, "What do you think of Noah’s flood?" or something like that. Never bite on such questions because they’ll lead you into a trackless wasteland and you’ll never get out of it.And the call was heeded. Gone from FR are the overt Young-Earth Creationists. Now we have wall-to-wall "evolution skeptics" who cite anti-E talking points from AnswersInGenesis, cannot be enticed to say what they do believe, and will not absorb a fact shot into them with a .44 magnum.