(November 28, 2015 at 1:00 am)TunaDragon28 Wrote: I am not an aggressive atheist, and I am quite respectful of religion (my mother is Christian), however sometimes I will come across an aggressive Christian, and if their anger at my belief cannot be stunted by polite deflections from their attacks, I may feel forced to attack back.
Because of this, I have found quite a nice way to argue against them with the use of a mayfly. If you aren't aware, mayflies live most of their life in fresh water like ponds and streams, and come into adulthood only for less then a day and then die (Dolania americana's females only live for five minutes). Using the existence of such a creature, I can apply them to the famous 'Noah's Ark' story. Not only does Noah need to keep these things alive for literally 40 times their adult life span, as well as that whole dove searching for land thing which is a few more days, but they need fresh water to lay their eggs. I don't think they had filtered tanks back then.
Actually, you could disprove them just with the flood. There's no chance that God somehow made some of that water fresh and some salt, it's either one or the other. If it's fresh, all sea life is dead. If it's salt, all freshwater life is dead, as well as the impossibility of the dove bringing back a plant from salt-water soaked soil. Plants don't do well with high salinity.
anyway that's two arguments in millions you could use. Again, I rarely use these as I rarely attack at religious people, but sometimes I may feel forced.
On the Ark, god put all of the creatures in stasis.
Fresh/salt water, god used his beard as a giant desalinization plant.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
