My Son Needs Some Help. Anti-Evolution Speaker Coming to His School

[renie408]

39. Good for you.

It is comforting to know that the intellectually superior are wandering the DU, ever ready to keep the rest of us ignorant slackers on the straight and narrow. You would think being a REAL scientist that you would not insert your own interpretations of text into a discussion and would work with facts in evidence. Could you go back and point out the post where I asked for 'ammunition'?

See, I thought this was the kind of subject that would interest the people here. I also know that there are a lot of very well-informed people with a broad base of knowledge who might have points that I would not have thought of. And there have been. I won't defend my personal knowledge of evolution to you, because you have made up your mind from one simple post that I am intellectually lazy and inferior to you, the 'real' scientist. I will say that I am NOT a real scientist. I am a real person with a real job that takes up a really large part of my life. I also have a home, two kids and a husband. I try to stay informed on a broad variety of subjects and one of the ways I do that is to come here. I was talking to my son at the same time I was on here and thought "Hey, I bet there are a lot of people on the DU with a ton of information on this and who have been through this debate. I will ask them for help." I am sorry that offends your intellectual sensibilities.

As for understanding the Young Earthers belief system...why? Because a lot of people believe in it? So we should all try to understand what they believe. I do understand it. There really isn't a whole lot to understand, honestly. To me, even giving this idiotic drivel any kind of respect lends it weight. This speaker is coming to a university to question the theory of evolution and is offering a Q&A session afterwards. I imagine he expects some tough questions, as he should.