Fundie Uncle
January 24, 2014 at 11:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2014 at 11:07 pm by ThePinsir.)
I'm kinda reluctant to do this...But I need some help.
A fundamentalist Christian uncle of mine and I have been going at it for a while. The argument he keeps going back to is: DNA needed to be encoded by an intelligence, which I usually respond to with "GOTG" (God of the gaps). And I think that works.
Then he says, repeatedly: "a tornado in a streak crap yard can't build a car. Chaos can not produce order."
I'm tempted to use some probability argument, something like "on one of the billions of planets, yes, your metaphorical tornado will in fact build a metaphorical car."
But I still feel like that argument is week. Is it? How would you respond?
I realize I'm kind of asking a personal favor from strangers on the internet, so I'm extremely grateful for any replies!
A fundamentalist Christian uncle of mine and I have been going at it for a while. The argument he keeps going back to is: DNA needed to be encoded by an intelligence, which I usually respond to with "GOTG" (God of the gaps). And I think that works.
Then he says, repeatedly: "a tornado in a streak crap yard can't build a car. Chaos can not produce order."
I'm tempted to use some probability argument, something like "on one of the billions of planets, yes, your metaphorical tornado will in fact build a metaphorical car."
But I still feel like that argument is week. Is it? How would you respond?
I realize I'm kind of asking a personal favor from strangers on the internet, so I'm extremely grateful for any replies!
