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The Creationists' Response To The Bill Nye / Ken Ham Debate (Original Post) Initech Feb 2014 OP
Ugh get the red out Feb 2014 #1
There's a response already Lost-in-FL Feb 2014 #2
#2 is great. nyquil_man Feb 2014 #7
the stupid is strong in these ones bowens43 Feb 2014 #3
. Jamaal510 Feb 2014 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #5
Phil Plait from Slate already answered those questions. Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #6
Ken Ham ... napkinz Feb 2014 #8
sums it up ... napkinz Feb 2014 #9

Lost-in-FL

(7,093 posts)
2. There's a response already
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 02:39 PM
Feb 2014
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/06/religion_and_science_answering_creationists_questions.html




...These questions are fairly typically asked when evolution is questioned by creationists. Some are philosophical, and fun to think about, while others show a profound misunderstanding of how science works, and specifically what evolution is. I have found that most creationists who attack evolution have been taught about it by other creationists, so they really don’t understand what it is or how it works, instead they have a straw-man idea of it...

nyquil_man

(1,443 posts)
7. #2 is great.
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 03:29 PM
Feb 2014

The existence of a "Creator" really does nothing to destroy science until we start getting into literal interpretations of religious texts.

As Plait points out in a later reply, some creationists seem to think science and atheism are synonyms.

Response to Initech (Original post)

 

Vashta Nerada

(3,922 posts)
6. Phil Plait from Slate already answered those questions.
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 03:25 PM
Feb 2014

He was too nice, however. I would have treated those people like children.

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