I think most of us with two brain cells to rub together realize that most arguments put forth by evolution deniers are total bunk, and often don't even agree with each other. Still, having recently read
this post, I thought it would be worth summing up some of the dumber arguments made by this crowd.
This video is actually part of a longer documentary that I reviewed some time ago, but I can't hunt up my post. (Why is Google so bad at that sometimes?) Anyway, I have to wonder at people who say Creationism "makes more sense," like that one woman they show in the video. Think about it this way. Even the most fundamentalist of Creationists knows that, when living things produce offspring, those offspring are somewhat different from the parents. Even if there were no other evidence for evolution (which there is), it would still be extrapolating based on something we know to be true. On the other hand, when's the last time you saw any evidence of an intelligent being creating a living thing from scratch? If you have, don't hold out on the world, because it could be your ticket to fame and fortune. If God made every living thing individually at the beginning of the world, why isn't He still doing that? Deists think that God set the world in motion and doesn't interfere with it anymore. While most mainstream religions would be appalled at this idea, I'm not sure their own beliefs are all that different. Sure, they think God still intervenes, but only occasionally, like a retired guy coming back in to his old workplace when his expertise is needed. He doesn't show up to chat with people and perform crazy magic tricks like He did when the world was young. But why, if belief in God is supposedly just as important now as it was then? He's a tricky one, that God!
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