AxlDave

To remind us all that the true Pope should be a rabbit...

Kind of like someone taking a piece of guttering off your house and then declaring "I have destroyed your home!" Try explaining it to your Dad like this: I have a cousin. I am not my cousin, nor did I come from my cousin, and yet my cousin and I are still related. We are related through a common ancestor - our grandparents. If he still asks for evidence, point him towards this paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/88/20/9051.short and this Wikipedia page explaining it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome_2_(human)

@ Greg H Apparently... apparently... apparently, he's not a creationist. But even if that were true, all it would mean is that he has no alternative to evolution whatsoever, and so "debunking" evolution will get him nowhere. Personally, I think a creationist lied and didn't think it through properly. Balance of probabilities and all that. Nothing is a great way to change their minds. But if lies are being told, the truth should be represented with equal vehemence. Plus I just like seeing creationists caught in their own lies.

@ Phi for All I invited him to post on here, but his response was to accuse me of changing the conversation, accuse me of insults, accuse this forum of having no evidence to back your positions, and then hurriedly try to close off the conversation. On second thought, it's probably a good thing he isn't here.

@ CharonY: This isn't so much about debunking his argument - it basically does that all by itself. The reason I post this here is twofold: First, to warn everyone of the type of "thinking" that still exists today. Second, this guy has stated several times that science and scientists do not support evolution, and I just thought it would be funny to link the guy to a page full of scientists giving scientific reasons why he's talking crap. @ Strange Yeah, it is more of a buffet... don't read the whole thing, just pick a quote or two and refute the hell out of it . I actually linked him to peer-reviewed articles including one of the famous fruit fly experiments which clearly states that "All these strains mate freely with Orinocan, but show a pronounced, though incomplete, ethological isolation from strains of the Interior semispecies.". Which is exactly the evidence he asked for, but would he listen? Hah! Would he buffalo.

Good evening. I have recently been in discussion with a chap who is blindingly ignorant of evolutionary theory. In my attempts to educate this whippersnapper, I have linked him to several peer-reviewed articles regarding evolution - none of which he has read, let alone attempted to refute - and attempted to explain to him why he is so very wrong. So great was his confidence in his intellect compared to that of almost every scientist on the planet that I challenged him to present his views on a moderated forum such as this, where people actually care whether the posted content is true. Predictably, he cowered away from such an option in a shower of deflections and personal attacks - yeah, this guy really knows all the tricks! So, out of the kindness of my heart (by which I mean the mischievous little imp that lives in my brain), I am going to post some of his "finer" points. These will be direct copy-pasted quotes to remove any possibility of me re-wording things in my favour. Here they are: So, yeah... lots of ignorant waffle there. What are people's thoughts?