It's impossible to use reason to totally refute something that wasn't rational in the first place. People believe what they want to believe, and as one of our present Christians has repeatedly shown, no amount of cognitive dissonance or mental gymnastics is too much to break them free.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell