RayJones

Creationists advance the argument that God planted fossil evidence of evolution in the rocks to deceive people. To which I reply: "If - as you are claiming - God is a lying deceiver, what on Earth makes you think your Bible is not just more of the same?"

The goal of these articles is not to outright insult creationists - a useless undertaking at best - but to point out the obviousness of evolution in the course of life on Earth both from the fossil record and the obvious fact that the characteristics of plants and animals can change dramatically under natural selection and selection by humans (who would have believed that both Great Danes and Chihuahuas could be descended from the same ancestral wolves?) Creationists advance arguments which superficially SOUND logical, but which on closer examination are definitely not. One argument is: "If humans are descended from apes, why are there stil

Just me putting out some observations about scientific and technical matters which profoundly affect our lives and our futures but which most people aren't concerned about. To kick off, one hears all manner of creationist nonsense about so-called objections to the theory of evolution (all of which have been thoroughly and repeatedly refuted, for all the good THAT does).  Anyway, it may happen that one gets accosted with some of this tired old nonsense and is not at the moment prepared for a long argument.  Here is the first of some brief replys. "How do you know evolution is real? - YOU weren't there!" Short reply: "No, I wasn't there.  A