A really annoying creationist tactic

[Pat Mustard]

One tactic often employed by creationists and one that pisses me off the most goes something like .

" Educate me if evolution is so right then show me it's true come on"

My response tends to be

"No if your so incurious as not to look into the data yourself. By what right should you expect people who have to invest there time in explaining it to you? "

Generally this is met with claims like

"if it were so easy you would explain it etc"

As if my disinterest in educating someone who has shown  no curiosity or willingness to learn (because if they were why do you need me)Or Incensement over the fact I did the work you refuse to do. Makes me not knowledgeable  on a subject .

Your response is exactly what they're banking on, because they expect explaining evolution to be as easy as their rationalising of god. But unlike make believe stories, as Alex has pointed out, explainin a complex system with many variables is hard.

But for the creatards they've "won" because they got a random person to admit "I don't know", as if an ordinary person not being able to explain something they've never studied makes it untrue.