re: #517 el guape

“The materialist looks to the heavens and argues that the stars are the result of unguided chaos, and he looks to the fields and posits that the cattle too are by-products of chance. And then he looks in a mirror and concludes, what? That he too is nothing more than the result of random chemical reactions?”

Your friend Bubba has invented an imaginary ‘materialist’ who behaves the way Bubba imagines, has the thoughts Bubba imagines, and reaches the conclusions Bubba imagines. This is the very definition of a straw man, and bears no resemblance to the thinking of people you think of as ‘materialists.’