I once met a creationist, which is pretty rare here. He was telling me that he was explaining evolution to his son, and why it could not possibly work. He explained it like this:
1. Take some lego bricks
2. Throw them in the air
3. They don't all fall down and form a person, even if repeated a thousand times.
4. Therefore evolution isn't true.
My reply was that actually if you kept repeating that and didn't undo any stuck bricks, then gradually bricks would stick together and most likely form something, though probably not human shaped. This didn't fit in with the narrative, so he changed the subject.
Experimentation is easy when you don't actually run the experiment, and just imagine what happens.
I give credit to the guy though, he genuinely believed all the wacky stuff he came out with. He lost his job after trying to diagnose a sick person at work using his medical knowledge, which came exclusively from youtube conspiracy videos.
1. Take some lego bricks
2. Throw them in the air
3. They don't all fall down and form a person, even if repeated a thousand times.
4. Therefore evolution isn't true.
My reply was that actually if you kept repeating that and didn't undo any stuck bricks, then gradually bricks would stick together and most likely form something, though probably not human shaped. This didn't fit in with the narrative, so he changed the subject.
Experimentation is easy when you don't actually run the experiment, and just imagine what happens.
I give credit to the guy though, he genuinely believed all the wacky stuff he came out with. He lost his job after trying to diagnose a sick person at work using his medical knowledge, which came exclusively from youtube conspiracy videos.
