When I was quite a bit younger I used to argue against young Earth creationists online. Eventually I came to mostly the same conclusion: there’s just so much wrong with everything they believe, there’s nowhere to even begin taking it all apart. No amount of reason will cut through their faith.
When I was quite a bit younger I used to argue against young Earth creationists online. Eventually I came to mostly the same conclusion: there’s just so much wrong with everything they believe, there’s nowhere to even begin taking it all apart. No amount of reason will cut through their faith.
That’s why you shouldn’t talk with them, but rather the lurkers in the forum that might still have a chance.
I am (well, probably now ‘was’. Birthdays suck) a young ex-church goer. I am young enough to bounce back and re-learn how the world works.
My mom is 56. She can’t bounce back and learn a whole new world.
You can open her eyes. Take her, wonder by wonder.
A whole new Moooooom…
It annoys me that Dawkins spent so much time arguing with them.