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Old 28-September-2007, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Professor Mayhem View Post
There is one critical factor you have to keep in mind:

Creationists, by and large, do not give a rat's *** in hell about scientific inquiry, evidence, or even objective reality.

They simply do not care...
This is why I said you have to lob the ball into their court: If you really want to argue, find out why they think there is so much bogus and evil evidence: Who is missleading the world's scientists? Whatever their reasoning, it is easy to point out that their private conclusion that the genetic, evolutionary, geological and astrophysical evidence is contrived; is based upon their personal theory about the nature of god.

Professor Mayhem is correct: If they will not make this concession, and only pontificate when you ask them to rationalize their belief structure; there is no point in further argument. But I suspect many of us have similar experiences to those of jamesabrown - way to go!
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