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I've just had a pretty hilarious conversation with a creationist who accepted that the burden of proof is on the one making the positive claim but insisted that he didn't need to provide proof for god on the basis that he was not convinced by my evidence for evolution.
Why are creationists so afraid of the burden of proof?
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
And your proof of evolution is? Sorry little girl it is and shall remain your's to prove. You don't understand science or debate.
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Celine: Yes there is the rub. How to prove the existence of rainbows to a girl born blind. Sorry but I don't cast my pearls before swine. You can not understand what I would say anyways. You are too busy deflecting from the fact that you can not prove evolution although that has been your stated intent for weeks now. I have simply pointed out that your evidence is not evidence at all. It is simply your interpretation which is an entirely different matter.
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Celine: What that you are too uneducated (blind) to see the answer is the same one I gave when teaching advanced math to my high school children. They simply didn't have the basics to understand quadratics. You don't have the spiritual underpinning to understand what I would teach you. The only difference is my children went out and developed those basics and then learned quadratics from me. You on the other hand are simply too closed minded.
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Celine: That little girl was evident from the outset. You don't have a clue.
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Celine: That's ok I will stop now. In a battle of wits I try to avoid fighting the unarmed such as you.
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SW-User
@hippyjoe1955: the case for evolution has been made...It's true whether you
BELIEVE in it or not...

No faith needed..there are species that bridge the gaps...
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@thoughtcriminal: The case for evolution has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. There is no proof and logically it is foolishness.
MetalGreymon · 36-40, M
@hippyjoe1955:

Because it's more logical to assume an eternal, omnipotent sky daddy did it.

Come on. Criticize the evidence if that pleases you, but don't pretend you have the logical high ground.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MetalGreymon: Describe the beginning of life if you wouldn't mind.
MetalGreymon · 36-40, M
@hippyjoe1955:

I don't know how it began.
Describe how lack of knowledge makes a personal creator god the logical answer, if you wouldn't mind...
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MetalGreymon: So you don't know how it began. Speaks well for your intlect. Good grief son do even read what you write>
MetalGreymon · 36-40, M
@hippyjoe1955:


Wow. Getting personal awfully quickly. Sort of smacks of defensiveness, doesn't it?

I don't pretend to know how life began. Explain how that reflects poorly on my intellect.
Go on. I'm curious.

And don't think that we all didn't just watch you dodge my challenge to explain your logical high ground. I'll be expecting that answer too.

Your move.

P.S. Intellect* 😉
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@MetalGreymon: Who started with the sky daddy? Wasn't me. So lets start over. How did it all begin?
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@hippyjoe1955: What does abiogenesis have to do with the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection?
SW-User
@hippyjoe1955: lungfish..
Go look them up...
No more broad statements
This isn't a theological discussion.
Go pray about them..
Perhaps go to school or read a book.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@hippyjoe1955:
And your proof of evolution is?

I assume you meant to say evidence, rather than proof?

After all, the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection consistently and coherently accounts for all the available evidence... as required of all scientific Theories.

The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection remains unfalsified... proof is not something sought in science
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@newjaninev2: Except for the beginning part. Evolution skips that entirely.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@hippyjoe1955: Because the Theory does not seek to account for abiogenesis, nor is it required to do so.

The Theory also does not account for gravity... for the same reasons.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@newjaninev2: So it just leaves out the inconvenient bits.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@hippyjoe1955: Abiogenesis isn't inconvenient.. it's simply not relevant.

What is relevant is the evidence from which the Theory has been developed... evidence that is consistently and coherently accounted for by the Theory.

There's currently no other Theory that consistently and coherently accounts for that evidence. If you have such a Theory, now would be a great time to present it.