Fighting fire with fire

Rev Hellfire

There's an interesting article on the beeb about using creation science as a way of proving evolution.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wondermonkey/2011/07/faith-versus-science-does-crea.shtml

Blackhorse Slim

Trying to use evidence to reason with creationists? I think I see the flaw in this strategy...

fatmammycat

Heh, a JC sized flaw.

Rev Hellfire

Blackhorse Slim wrote: »

Trying to use evidence to reason with creationists? I think I see the flaw in this strategy...

I think the clever thing is he uses their own tools to dismiss their viewpoint, its less easy for them dismiss since they're dismissing their own argument at the same time.

Sarky

If Creation science was interested in evidence, there'd be no creation science.

Galvasean

Rev Hellfire wrote: »

I think the clever thing is he uses their own tools to dismiss their viewpoint, its less easy for them dismiss since they're dismissing their own argument at the same time.

I see where they are coming from, but this would simply be something to ad to the big pile of things Creationists don't agree with despite them making perfect sense.

Rev Hellfire

Galvasean wrote: »

I see where they are coming from, but this would simply be something to ad to the big pile of things Creationists don't agree with despite them making perfect sense.

True, but any thing which chips away at their 'science' and does so in a manner which invalidates it in terms they accept is to be welcome in my view.

You mightn't hook those who firmly believe it, but you may hook those who simply accept it and have been educated to automatically dismiss arguments presented from a conventional science perspective.

Dades

Dubious about the utility of this one.

Unknown wrote:

You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.