If you find yourself arguing with a
religiously-minded person about creationism/intelligent design and evolution, stop and change
tack. Here are some ideas about how to avoid getting dragged into a futile
debate with someone who has already made up their mind on the issue:
1. Ask them why they assume that only one
person was responsible for the design of the earth and all the living things in
it. Take a single thing that we know for sure has been intelligently designed
e.g. a Ferrari. How many people down the centuries have been involved in the
perfection of a modern day Ferrari? Don’t forget to include the invention of
the wheel and its development into an alloy construction with tubeless
low-profile tyres.
2. Ask them where the evidence is of God
practising, since no intelligent person I’ve ever met got good at anything
without practice.
3. Ask them to explain how assuming an
almighty creator can help to evolve human society in a moral rather than merely
material direction. If you get a sensible answer, please pass it on.
4. Ask them to explain how the creator
might have been created.
5. Ask them why pronouns for God always
have capital letters and why He created people, like me, who find it intensely
annoying.
6. Ask them whether God is responsible for
the development, by seemingly intelligent people, of carbon dating techniques.
7. Ask them if they accept that the idea of
an intelligent designer is based on observations of intelligent design by
humans. Then ask them if they think human society may one day evolve a new almighty
designer who will this time leave written records and allow future humans to
avoid wasting time on futile discussion of imponderables.
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