13 July 2002

Sigh... As someone who grew up homeschooled I have a lot of experience with creationist circles, and it makes me easily frustrated with scientists responses. For example, this article in Scientific American. The headline of the article is "15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense." Now refering to it as "nonsense" in the beginning of the article before any argument has been made is exactly what makes creationists think that scientists are dogmatically anti-religious and not interested in the actual truth but only in advancing their athiest agenda. Furthermore the article proceeds to spend about two pargaraphs on 15 different points. None of these paragraphs would give anyone enough information to be able to answer a creationist. I could rattle off the creationist response to each of those paragraphs and win the argument even though I was wrong. I've done it before back when I actually believed creationism. Its not difficult. Creationists know their stuff, they're wrong, but they know their stuff. Quick out of hand dismissals like this argument only convinces more people that evolutionists are afraid of challenge and don't care about the truth. Its frustrating because creationists are wrong but scientists won't take them seriously enough to show that.

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