Argument #1: Transitional Fossils

[Confused Ape]

With all due respect to Augustine, my intentions are not to misrepresent the Scripture.

Let's go through it step by step.

"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking non-sense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. "

1: Non-Christians can know about the things he mentioned and these come under the heading of science.

2: If a Christian talks nonsense about these things it makes Christianity look bad.

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?

3: Christians who talk rubbish in science discussions give non-Christians the idea that the Bible is rubbish because only uneducated people believe what it says.

For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although 'they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.

4: Christians who use Holy Scripture to back up their ignorance about science make Christianity look even worse.

Ken Ham and other Young Earth Creationists use the Bible to back up their nonsense and they are an embarrassment to Christians who have accepted scientific findings about the age of the Earth. These Christians have different views about how we got here because some of them believe that God created things in stages while others go for evolution being the way God did it.

Why do you think so many Christian sites have articles debunking Young Earth Creation?