Why can't evolutionists answer questions or debate the issues without resorting to insults,snide remarks?

Question

& sarcasm. I debate this wtih a guy at work frequently who's an evolutionist and yet this never happens. What's wrong with the rest of you?

Answer 1

I've seen them mostly do the side step.

I have YET to get an evolutionist to tell me WHAT SKIN COLOR **** Erectus was!

I really want to know that.

There are pretty pictures of this dark beige person at Museums likes those in NYC.

Reminds me of the pretty pictures of a blue eye Jesus in some Bibles!

Modern Evolutionists are basically saying the same thing the Bible says. We were made this way. Maybe we didn't have language, but basically we were very much then as we are now.

Modern Evolutionists have stopped saying we were bred from Apes.

They know they can't prove it.

They know there is a "missing link."

They now advocated paralel development.

We all came from the same Amobea, so we are all inbreed to a degree, but we branch off differently from the Ape.

That is the most current mainstream thinking.

Catholicism and Judaism has no problems with Darwin's views on Natural Selection.

Selection implies a CHOICE.

This, however, does not invalidate the other scientific thinking of the Survival of the Fittest, which is NOT Darwinism.

YOu have both types of scientists.

What religion objects to is RANDOMIST thinking.

To put it bluntly, although incorrectly, a RANDMIST says if you put a bunch of parts in a box you buy at Radio Shack and give it to Apes in a zoo and have them shake that box, in 1biillion years you'll get a fully working X box without a soldering iron.

That is, I admit, over simplistic, but it does give you an idea of Randomist thinking.

Einstein opposed this and said "God doesn't play craps!"

And if you weren't aware, the Big Bang Theory was postulated by a CAtholic Jesuit Priest and Physicists in good standing with the Church.

Answer 2

The key to any debate is to not get personal. Whenever that happens, it is an argument. Why some people are not able to differentiate between to two is an oddity to me. If someone is not able to debate anything without getting angry or insulting then they do not have the intelligent ability to debate in the first place. Whenever I am confronted by someone like this; I just walk away from them or 9 times out of 10 get tickled and laugh. That really makes them mad! The things that make our world interesting are some of the very differences that we all have. By being able to talk and debate, we can actually learn more about those differences. Therefore, we could all learn to be more tole rent. What a shame that some people have not learned that it is alright to understand someone Else's point of view without actually believing it. Maybe one day......

Answer 3

Any real debate requires comparable, even though conflicting, concepts on both sides of an issue. You cannot "debate" scientific data vs. personal biblical interpretations. Yet, those whose personal biblical interpretations conflict with the reality of scientific fact constantly want to "debate" the issue from that viewpoint. It just isn't possible, and that's what is so frustrating about it. If so-called "creationists" (a term I personally reject since I firmly believe in God as the Creator, and also in scientific data describing the development of species) would take an honest look at the scientific data, then perhaps they would be in a better position to actually debate the issue. But they won't, for fear that their personal guesses regarding the meaning of certain scripture passages will be exposed as flawed.

Answer 4

I can when there's a real question instead of cut and paste loaded questions that have been asked here last week. I could point out that the phrase "evolutionist" is a snide, sarcastic dig at any proponent of evolution, designed to imply that they are as dogmatic as "Scientific" Creationists.

Answer 5

We'll answer your questions just as long as we know you're going to read our response and not just blow it off. Too many people here ask questions that start out "Hey evolutionists... how about this???" -- They're not looking for an answer, they just want to vent about how much they hate evolution. And we're not going to sit here and type up a whole essay answering the question just to have the asker blatantly ignore all the pro-evolution answers and choose a one-line pro-Bible answer as the best.

If you're serious about wanting an answer, you'll get one. But you have to be serious.

Answer 6

When i first started here they tried to answer evolution questions honestly and intelligently, backing up their data with links. Then, after being ridiculed time after time, their data not only just disputed but not even being attempted to be understood, and the exact same question asked day after day, they grew jaded and quit trying. So now they just answer in the manner that those questions were being asked.

Answer 7

OK, so if it's not "the BIBLE says so!!!" - or some other such nonsense, then it's a snide remark or an insult? You know what? I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you. It's in Brooklyn.....

Answer 8

Wow, so you've talked with everyone in the world who agrees with evolution, have you?

I always try to answer questions to the best of my ability, and only resort to insults if the person I'm debating with does so first.

Answer 9

lets see, I would first ask if you make broad sweeping statements about evolutionist.
Then I would ask if you approach your argument from an intellectual, emotional or a theological point of view.

Most evolutionist will want you to back up your statements with facts that can be proved, attempts to justify your argument any other way will usually lead to scorn and derision.

Answer 10

Debating with someone online is different than debating with someone in person.No one can see any body or facial language,there's no voice inflection,so it can seem really cold and indifferent.However,there is no excuse for rudeness or insults.