Is "My great grandpa isn't a pile of mulch" a valid argument against creationism?

Question

Because I sure do hear "I'm not descended from apes' as an 'argument' a lot against evolution.

Answer 1

don't descend to their level when you have so many better arguments to use that are based on logic and evidence.

Answer 2

It depends on whether the old guy is dead or still alive.

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Doug --

What is really unlikely is that it would not happen. The difference between living and non-living molecules is nothing more than the result of natural and common bio-chemical reactions. Similar process are responsible for increasing complexity.

There is not a single trait of any known life form that evolution does not fully, completely, and accurately explain. You would know more if you had paid attention in those math and science classes.

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Doug –

There was no deathbed confession or recanting by Darwin – not according to his wife, daughter, and friends. The woman who made it up was just a publicity seeking money-hungry twit (in that sense, she was similar to creationists). Did you even go to school?


And, no scientist has ever claimed that the universe was random. In fact, that would render science as useless as mythology in explaining the physics of our world.

That is just another creationist lie they made up in order to have something to argue against.

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Chef Bob --

No, it would not effect the theory of evolution in any way, as the theory has nothing to do with either god or the emergence of life.

Do you mean those ignorant, wife-beating cynics who hid their actions behind hypocritical piousness?

Or, do you mean the fewer than 10% of Colonial era Americans who attended church?

Or, do you mean America’s Founding Fathers who intentionally excluded all mention of God, Jesus, and Christianity from the US Constitution, thus creating the first 100% secular, non-theistic government in history?

Answer 3

Do you know what, I do not care how God made me, the main thing is that He made me. If He took a dirt and made the evolution happen from there..that is fine by me. I just know I am created by God. I am happy with that info. My faith has never been about my "making". I have a personal relationship with God, and no theory can take that away from me. : )

Answer 4

Say now, I just say that a lot. It's not evidence.

I think the chances of each random mutation of an individual cell from an unknown source eventually creating human beings over billions of years who have the ability to communicate across the world in seconds today is highly unlikely.

(Not to mention the random existence of the entire universe)

Answer 5

no, your statement insinuates that your dear departed great grandfather is not in the ground, thus he/his soul is with God. If there is then a Creator God, then the human THEORY of evolution falls moot.
ps. people in your great grandfather's day were much more likely to be God-fearing people and
closer th their God.
How things have changed.