Quote:1. The Bible is the Word of God, the ultimate truth. God knows more than humans, since He is omniscient by definition, so anything He says is true. Therefore the Bible is true.
You might ask him why, if the Bible is true in every particular, it lists bats among the birds.
Quote: 2. Humans, on the other hand, will never know as much as the Creator. Because they have a limited capacity to understand, they will always be below the Creator's knowledge.
But we know that bats are not birds, something God is (apparently) unclear about.
Quote:3. Scientists are limited to observing and testing the principles of nature only for the present. They will never be able to know what happened in the past.
The only answer to this is to bash him repeatedly over the head with a copy of 'The Handbook Of Inductive Reasoning'. The unabridged version, please.
Quote:4. Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, was a racist and believed that there were higher and lower races of people. The whole theory of evolution is based on this racially discriminative principle.
Darwin can only be considered a 'racist' by the hypersensitive standards of today. Evolution is manifestly NOT based on notions of racial superiority. If Darwin was racist ('racialist' might be a better term), he was an extremely mild and enlightened one.
Quote:5. Are you really asking me to believe that a star, which came out of nothing, exploded and created the whole Universe?
No. No one is asking you to believe that.
Quote:6. Evolution teaches us that humans evolved from monkeys. How can you explain the existence of monkeys today?
Already well answered. I'll just add: All people are descended with modification from their parents: Why are there still parents?
Quote:7. The second law of thermodynamics, which is part of science, disproves evolution. A scientific law contradicts a scientific theory, therefore the theory isn't true.
I agree that if no energy whatsoever were added to a system, that system would not evolve. So?
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson