Pretty sure trolls
Pretty sure trolls
If god made us these perfect creatures that are from his own image, then why do the most hardcore of religious followers say "Oh look at this beautiful perfect child that god made...oh...we need to cut off his penis"
YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE KUYA, DO YOU?
I saw all of it.
Arguing in itself in pointless, people will believe in whatever they want to whether its in a white bearded man in the sky, a flying spaghetti monster, or even something as foolish as evolution.
Agreeing with them and walking away is the best solution in my opinion.
There are universally invariant truths, gravity behaves the same way whether you're here or somewhere in the andromeda galaxy. Similarly, most of evolution can be broken down to how proteins and small molecules behave at levels that are best described by fundamental physics and chemistry. Science, and any empirical or predictive truth, doesn't care about your opinion. If life as it exists didn't arise through evolution, we would have to toss out everything we know about biology and life itself. It would make just about everything science has acquired evidence for absurd.
If you showed anyone, or even an alien from another planet, a painting of the color red and said "what do you see" they could say "blakdlskdahsdlkhj". But if you smashed a spectrophotometer against the painting and showed them the value of the wavelength of light reflected from it, you would agree that it had some value irrespective of what you called the color. Opinions, after enough time and evidence has accumulated, don't matter when it comes to science.
Sadly, there's no succinct way to teach fundamental biochemistry or anything like that to people who think evolution is "just a theory" or "just your opinion". So I would say it's best to give up.
Just make them watch this video.
http://controversy.wearscience.com/
It's funny when people think you're serious and try to debate. It's even funnier when they think you're serious and give you a high-five.
Paul Bunyan got me.
I have two of them. Noone ever gets it until I launch into a lengthy explanation.
They're like "so..you believe in scientology?" after I finish my extensive sarcastic speech about how kids should be taught that our souls are trapped in volcanoes by aliens who flew in spaceships that looked like DC-9s.
Yeah... I bought the Russel's Teapot one a couple years back, but I don't think I've ever run into anyone who knows wtf it is. Fucking Ohio.
I don't really understand what you're looking for? It's not really even an argument, it's a statement of their worldview. The implication is that there's no truth or absolutes, everyone only has subjective opinions. It's not an argument, it's a concession of having lost one (or more, an open statement that there's no grounds for beginning an argument). "I have no facts of reality or truth it's merely my subjective feeling" is what it amounts to.
Not much to say. If that's really what they believe what is there to discuss? Move on and focus on people who will admit there is a truth, reality, and facts.
Edit: Slightly edited for shitty early AM grammar. Also obligatory.
http://www.dor-lomin.com/wp-content/...ki-opinion.jpg
I usually respond to this in a very civil and well mannered way. Although i normally don't bother debating with people who are unable to differentiate between the scientific theory to that of a virgin creating a theory on where the G spot is. You may want to start off with asking these people to determine if its worth the effort who cry "God created everything" and " because its in the bible." If they can recite the name of every book in the bible in order. If they can, then holy crap you just found a species which was previously thought extinct.
Still not worth it though.
Them: "In my opinion it's wrong. I believe God created the world."
Me: "Your opinion is wrong it has no foundation on which to stand."
Them: "I have a right to my opinion!"
Me: "You are correct, you do have an opinion. Although it is completely worthless."
(This is the usual responses i get.)
Them: "My opinion is just as valid as yours its only a theory!"
Me: "Tell me what the scientific method is please?"
Them: "Why would i know that?" (this is seriously the main response i get.)
Me: "So your opinion knows nothing about the work that goes into this theory?"
Them: "If it went through the scientific method and it was proven then it would be a scientific fact!"
Me: "That is not correct, with that statement you just proved your opinion is invalid and your an idiot."
Them: "What do you mean its not correct?! I'm not an Idiot!"
Me: "Yes you are, for you are trying to make an opinion on a topic you have absolutely no idea about."
Them: "It's my opinion! and thats what i think!"
Me: "I think that you're to lazy to educate yourself, therefore your opinion and or opinions will always be garbage."
Them: "Shut up... asshole."
Me: "I would like to bet that you cant tell me what all the books in the bible are, in order of course. Therefore proving that you do not even understand your own opinion."
Them: "Fuck you, your such a jack ass."
Me: "Thank you for wasting my time."
Scientific method was that thing we had to keep reviewing through the end of elementary and into middle school lol That's how bad the schools fail.
Instead of arguing with people who disagree with you, why not exploit their predictability to your advantage?
It's the very basis of every political school of thought.