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.

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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.