Audio: How to Argue with a Creationist
Here’s a list of the most common creationist talking points, along with refutations of all of them, by Brian Dunning at Skeptoid.com: How to Argue with a Creationist.
The audio version:
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Can you guess how many of these endlessly recycled canards have been brought up in the evolution-related threads at LGF? (Try: all of them.)
- Evolution is just a theory, not a fact.
- Evolution is controversial; scientists disagree on its validity.
- Evolution is not falsifiable, therefore it’s not science.
- Evolution is itself a religion. (This one is extremely popular.)
- Evolution cannot be observed.
- There is an absence of transitional fossils.
- Evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics.
- Evolution cannot create complex structures with irreducible complexity.
- It’s too improbable for complex life forms to develop by chance.
- Evolution cannot create new information.
- Evolution does not explain some aspects of life or culture.
Dunning forgot one, though:
- Evolution leads directly to Hitler, genocide, immorality, hangnails, and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
Frank says: