22½ Responses to 22 Messages from Creationists

[nova_one]

A response to "22 Messages From Creationists To People Who Believe In Evolution", compiled by Matt Stopera

(There are other responses. I'm going to avoid reading them so that I get the full exercise of writing this.)

I've been really 'lazy' about writing lately - it's so easy to write comments and preface tweets and Facebook posts of other people

Comments

[vovat]

Good write-up, although I have to wonder why you linked to so many definitions of fairly simple words. I think I'm going to join a religion that believes in dodos with cloaking devices. Seriously, though, I have to wonder about the alien question, because I don't know too many prominent atheists who DO support the ancient astronaut ideas; that's more of a cultic thing. I do think the existence of such a vast universe kind of makes the topics covered in the Bible seem rather insignificant (there's an incredibly huge cosmos out there, and the Supreme Being is concerned about whether a few tribes in the desert are working on Saturday?), but of course this doesn't disprove the existence of a divine creator. Obviously there are a lot of possible models besides the Christian, atheistic, and magic alien astronaut ones.

[nova_one]

I have a friend in this community who's a second-language speaker and not much of a reader. It wasn't so much that I was writing this for him, but I was thinking in terms of words he didn't understand when I used them (here's one: liability), and he kept saying things like English is a good language for bullies. I didn't want to be throwing out relatively advanced words assuming people know already what they are. Besides, I sometimes found looking at the definitions to be useful myself.

I also now think I spent a lot of time labouring under the worry that just because science couldn't perfectly account for something, that means the off-the-shelf religious ideas about it trump science. But I was writing this for people tempted to think that way who might go "HA! HA! You see! They don't have an answer, so mine must be right!" Though those people are probably never going to read this anyway, so this was probably mostly a philosophical exercise.