evilotakuneko
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Ohai League of Reason.
On one of the forums I spend time on, evolution "debates" crop up once in a while. Usually it's a comedy of pwnage as idiot creatards show up to take their licks. Sometimes, you get one who is weak in their belief, only a creationist out of ignorance. Sometimes they seem to start coming around and abandoning their fairy tales.
I think I had one such creationist here. I engaged him a couple posts later, at #400. His reply at 402 led me to believe perhaps I could bring him around, if I could just get him to correct his misconceptions of what evolution is. Thus my as-polite-as-an-evil-cat-can-be response at 404. His reply directly after gives me some slight hope I reached him, and I've continued referring back to that post as more people came by, as I did here. That one ended up running off with his fingers in his ears.
One of those people I referred back to it though, was this guy.
You can probably see why I chose to engage him. He starts off his post with
Okay, wat? He accepts evolution, accepts that "humans have evolved as a species" but not "humans evolved FROM another species"....wat?
I decided to try my previously-successful tact and directed him to the link-laden post I made on the previous page. His response?
He didn't even read it!
Naturally I responded, trying to point out all his errors...(with a link to AronRa's monkey video for good measure. )
His response was basically to dismiss everything and insult me, and toss out creationist canards like "evolution is weak" and "scientists are biased." (And, at another poster, the whole "radiometric dating is flawed" thing) When I called him on it, he again insults me and returns to the same "evolution is weak" crap.
At this point, I'm not sure what to do with this guy. I don't think I know my shit well enough nor am I eloquent or angry enough to go full Ra on him, though that's clearly what he deserves.
So, what say you all?
On one of the forums I spend time on, evolution "debates" crop up once in a while. Usually it's a comedy of pwnage as idiot creatards show up to take their licks. Sometimes, you get one who is weak in their belief, only a creationist out of ignorance. Sometimes they seem to start coming around and abandoning their fairy tales.
I think I had one such creationist here. I engaged him a couple posts later, at #400. His reply at 402 led me to believe perhaps I could bring him around, if I could just get him to correct his misconceptions of what evolution is. Thus my as-polite-as-an-evil-cat-can-be response at 404. His reply directly after gives me some slight hope I reached him, and I've continued referring back to that post as more people came by, as I did here. That one ended up running off with his fingers in his ears.
One of those people I referred back to it though, was this guy.
You can probably see why I chose to engage him. He starts off his post with
Evolution exist 100%, but what is not proven is the if, who, where and when of the issue.
There is no proof that we evolved from another species, there is evidence that we have evolved AS a species, also the possibility exist for evolution from one species to another but in the case of humans there is far to much scattered and missing evidence to form a conclusive theory that humans evolved from another species.
Okay, wat? He accepts evolution, accepts that "humans have evolved as a species" but not "humans evolved FROM another species"....wat?
I decided to try my previously-successful tact and directed him to the link-laden post I made on the previous page. His response?
What was inaccurate in my post?
He didn't even read it!
Naturally I responded, trying to point out all his errors...(with a link to AronRa's monkey video for good measure. )
His response was basically to dismiss everything and insult me, and toss out creationist canards like "evolution is weak" and "scientists are biased." (And, at another poster, the whole "radiometric dating is flawed" thing) When I called him on it, he again insults me and returns to the same "evolution is weak" crap.
At this point, I'm not sure what to do with this guy. I don't think I know my shit well enough nor am I eloquent or angry enough to go full Ra on him, though that's clearly what he deserves.
So, what say you all?