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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Jesus, at a certain point you just have to say "No, I'm not going to accept the absurd." hank, if there were a God interested enough to create Adam and Eve out of dust, where the hell's he been for the last several millenia? I don't have the bandwidth to lay out all the facts suppirting Darwin's theory, but suffice it to say, a reasonable man can view evolution and say "Yep, thats plausible." The same cannot be said for the Adam and Eve story. At ceratin point, we have to bag thios softheaded politeness toward religion and just say out loud, "It probably did not happen that way." Maybe Darwin isn't 100% on the mark, but I look at his data and say "Well, we certainbly did come from apes, so at a minimum, he's prt right." And thats a hell of a lot more than any creationist can ever claim.

But I could beat you silly on the facts and logic all day and then you'd just say "Oh, well, unless you can prove every last stitch of the chain, I don't buy evolution." Thats willful refusal to deal with facts. Darwin had evidence. Thats how we measure things. When you get evidence supporting an alternative, you get to debate Darwin. Until then, you're just wasting breath and looking absurd.

And stop with the God-Science gimick. Raising tautologies is not rebuttal.

Its a theory. A theory has to have evidence or its not even a theory, its an idea w/o support (think Ty's conspiracy posts). I'm not trying to argue that creationism is anything at all- the sticker only says that evolution is a theory- it is a theory. If you understand science you understand that a theory can and should be questioned. Maybe god's an alternative, maybe a cruiser ship from alpha-Centori dumped its waste tank in the ocean and life sprang from fecal bacteria, maybe something no one has thought of is true. Your very line of argument shows that science education, as it exists, has failed you.