Little side note here...

[RHJunior]

We have had this debate before, on my forums. Without fail, it goes the same way every time.

<them> Evolution is SCIENCE!

<me> No it isn't. Here's why (list of reasons)

<them> All these scientists believe evolution, that means it's SCIENCE!

<Me> All <i>these</i> scientists (list of links) don't.

<them> Those aren't SCIENTISTS!

<Me> Why not?

<them> Because they're RELIGIOUS, and they believe in GOD. And if you believe in God, you can't be a SCIENTIST.

<Me> But look at this list of material evidence (list of links) and these scientific laws----

<them> It doesn't MATTER. This stuff was DISPROVEN.

<Me> How?

<them> (several minutes of mumbling and farting about) ---and we multiply the square root of PI by a carrot, which proves that black equals white, day is night, and all evidence against evolution is disproven! All Hail the Monkey Man! (burns a pinch of incense to Darwin)



You know what? Bugger it. Okay? They literally believe that a formless mass of raw energy, in violation of the first three laws of thermodynamics, somehow magically distilled out into stars, planets, oceans, mountains, protozoans, plants, insects, animals, people and tofu hot dogs. And by their own admission, <i>any evidence or argument to the contrary is to be dismissed and buried under pseudobabble and bolognium and unobtanium as UNSCIENTIFIC.</I>

I had more success convincing an Otherkin he wasn't a reincarnated elf than I've had convincing an evolutionist that the infinitely complex stuff known as LIFE, <I><B>which they cannot even replicate from scratch with their collective applied intellects in their own laboratories,</i></b> could not have happened by accident. It's Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Mommy, and the first great lay they ever had all rolled into one to them--- and, almost as importantly, their jobs, government grants, teaching positions, tenure, their very life and death hang on their burning that pinch of incense to Darwin on a daily basis.

I'm utterly sick of having to go back and prove that wheels aren't square and the world isn't flat every time this farcical "debate" gets brought back up again. I'd rather talk to a freaking Hare Krishna at the airport than deal with a Disciple of Darwin, and I'd get more intellectual stimulation out of it to boot, <i>because at least the Hare Krishna doesn't think that you're more of a scientist if you refuse to believe the material evidence presented to you.</i>

Consider this topic BANNED from here on out.