(November 5, 2013 at 7:33 pm)Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote: I don't know why they bother engaging creationists in debates like this. If I had to do one of these debates, I'd let the creationist do all the talking. I'd literally let them talk for the entire duration without saying a word myself.
Would I would do however, is have 3 buttons, each connected to a different alarm. One would be for logical fallacies, one for misrepresenting science and the other for outright lies. I'd basically just spend the entire debate playing whack-a-mole.
That would be fantastic, but eventually, as a viewer of the debacle, I'd want them all explained. "This is the fallacy he used" "He said X but the evidence says Y and Z."
It would be amazing fun to watch, though.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
