Quick YEC Debunks

[The Grand Nudger]

 To literalists, if Adam and Eve never existed, then there was no original sin.  And if there was no original sin, then there was no need of a sacrifice to redeem humanity.

This doubt cannot be allowed to enter into their minds.  There MUST be a way to disprove evolution.  God is going to prove himself right and the scientists wrong. (They argue against global warming in a similar, if less threatened way.  God is in control, humans can't alter the earth, and Jesus is coming back soon anyway so it doesn't matter.)

-which is a damned shame..because the thematic validity of their literature doesn't really rest on a literal and absolute position on the uncompromising truth of the narrative...but on the fact that people do bad shit.  People -do-...do bad shit...and it never took an adam or an eve to make that a reality. I'd say...as an anti-theist, that human beings need and desire redemption. This is true. It's as true as the notion that the sun will rise in the morning. Do they need redemption for all of the silly shit that literalists think is wrong?

OFC not......nevertheless. A generally decent species of ape that likes to think of themselves as broadly good at least recognizes their ability to engage in casual evil. That can';t be but a good thing until people attach their fucking ignorant superstitions to it and spend all of their moralizing time flagellating themselves and others for shit that isn't wrong to the exclusion of shit that is.

There are only so many hours in a god-damned day..and every hour someone spends hating themselves or others for liking the wrong sort of genetalia, for example..is an hour they don't spend hating themselves for being real fucking assholes on entirely more legitimate grounds.