On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:11:49 -0500, Warp wrote:

> "Honest creationist" really is an oxymoron.

Something we agree on.

My younger brother, who has a degree in philosophy and religion, has a 
good friend who's a young earth creationist, but who has enough of a 
science background that he has built some of the most dishonest circular 
arguments I've ever seen.  If you don't know science, you'll get sucked 
into his explanations and citations from "Answers in Genesis" (the people 
who brought you - and I'm not making this up - the "Creation Mueseum", 
which more or less depicts the time of the dinosaurs as if The 
Flintstones were a documentary).

Debating with him is one of the most pointless exercises I've ever 
engaged in.  It got so bad, that for my own health, I blocked him on 
Facebook so I wouldn't have to read his drivel, because it drove my blood 
pressure up trying to reason with him.

My premise being this:  I disagree with him, he believes his god is 
infallible.  So, I'm arguing against his god, whom he absolutely believes 
in.

Nothing I can say will *ever* change his mind.  Hence, no point in 
debating with him about it.  He's never going to see the reality of the 
situation, because it contradicts his deeply held belief that the bible 
is never wrong.  In his mind, the only way he agrees is if I agree with 
him that everything I know to be factual is wrong.

A perfect demonstration of how not to debate a topic.

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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