(September 16, 2015 at 1:55 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: oops sorry Kingpin - we must have both been typing at the same time!
You should not apologize. You have given an answer to the question, and he has merely said that he will at some time in the future give an answer to the question. Your answer is similar to how I was taught as a child. It can be summarized thusly:
The Bible is the true word of God.
The Bible says that God directly created all species.
The theory of evolution contradicts that.
Anything that contradicts the truth must be false. (This, by the way, is a tautology.)
Therefore, evolution is false.
The argument is logically valid. Its soundness (or lack thereof), however, is another matter.
One can easily avoid deciding that it is unsound by never properly examining the theory of evolution (and by not examining the reasonableness of the Bible too carefully either). One of the very striking things about reading Darwin's On the Origin of the Species is how very reasonable he is. It is understandable to an educated reader; one does not have to be a specialist to understand it. Some of the examples are likely to be unknown to the general reader, but the overall argument and discussion is very understandable. Of course, I did not read it when I was a Christian, only after I became an atheist.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
