RE: You smart people care to examine this for me?
April 27, 2011 at 9:00 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2011 at 9:01 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:As you an see, I have the woeful task of having accepted a theist's challenge of 'No evidence for evolution'. That's fine though, since i need to get my arguments right anyhow So anyone care to tell me how many logical fallacies I made here, vital omissions that need to be fixed, bits of extraneous fluff that you personally don't like and I'll shoot you for asking me to remove them? Anyway, it's below.
I rarely try, any more than when an ignoramus starts rabbiting on about Communism. There are a total 8 people in the world world whose opinion of me or anything else matters to me in any deep way..
When some dickhead says something really stupid, such as "there is no evidence for evolution". I just laugh at them and suggest they trot off and read some Darwin, perhaps starting with "The Origin Of The Species". Then perhaps say some science explaining how DNA validates evolution. Then I change the subject.
This is not laziness on my part. I accept evolution as fact, not an unproven hypothesis. However,I'm neither a scientist nor a teacher. I lack the skills to actually teach evolution,especially as to a 12 year old.
Plus, I have character flaw: I don't suffer fools, and have been known to say some very unkind things to such people.This is not always wise in a social setting.
I do not conflate the outcome of an argument as necessarily reflecting the truth or falsity of a position.