(May 22, 2014 at 10:22 pm)Zidneya Wrote:(May 22, 2014 at 9:13 am)Esquilax Wrote: Just send him back a picture of poop. Because what he sent you is not evidence, just a series of rambling assertions. Particularly, that "sedimentary layers," claim is an old Kent Hovind stalwart and is so wrong that it actually misunderstands the physics of sediment layers, to say nothing of geology.
Honestly, just tell that guy to fuck off. Christ.
You wanna hear something curious, I was talking with someone else online about anime because one would assume that we were talking about atheism or god or something alike, but no. And the minute that I mention being an atheist this other guy joined the conversation and send me this.
I've been given the advice to just pronounce Latin based botanical names with confidence. There is no one living who speaks Latin as their mother tongue to contradict you.
Apparently young-earthers and other fundamentalists feel the same way about geology and other fields of science. Sadly for them the situations are not parallel. Their mishandling of science generally and shoddy interpretation of evidence is obvious to anyone with a sound rudimentary introduction to a field.
