Personally I laugh every time I hear the
"If we came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys" especially when followed with a hilarious "Case closed"
2007-05-24 04:10:00 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah I love the monkeys one....
They find it hard to believe and absolutely ridiculous....!
I counter with their Genisis vresion of mud piled up on the River bank then...
"POOF".....
There stands the first man made from a pile of mud then god grabs a rib out of the New mans chest throws it on the ground and ....
"POOF"
There stands his new companion.....
Oh yes their storry is way, way more believable......
];-)
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2007-05-24 04:14:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I love the monkeys! This might be esoteric, but one argument that creationists use is the "like only breeds with like" and the argument of only "kinds can breed with kinds" without any explanation of what that means. Yet even by their vague and fuzzy definition; plants and animals breed outside "kinds" or "types" all the time. The other funny thing is that almost every creationist argument can be defeated with examples from of organisms from fungi, lichens, ( hybrid of fungus and algae, talk about two different "types" or "Kinds" breeding together) seaweeds, and bacteria yet they discount all these families by saying "these life forms were created after the fall, so they don't count" WTF? These are all far more primitive than mammals...yet they don't count? I can't wrap my brain around that, so I laugh instead.
2007-05-24 11:27:08 · answer #2 · answered by Linda S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For stupidest argument: "If humans came from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys?" Winner because of the sheer repetition without recognition that it is even *logically* absurd (as it starts with the misunderstanding that a species always replaces its ancestor ... which trivially would mean there would be only one species on the planet!)
But for *funniest* argument: A tie between:
The peanut butter argument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504
And the banana argument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4
2007-05-24 11:28:52 · answer #3 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I like the banana argument, pure comic genius!
I also like "EVERYTHING must have a creator (except the creator)"
but the one that would make me giggle right in their face is: "just look at the complexity...its obviously been designed".
My shamisen has been designed, but my Dance of the Fans is fluid motion poetry. Xtians do not understand, no matter how much sake they consume!
2007-05-24 11:21:31 · answer #4 · answered by Geisha Christ 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Kirk Cameron's Bananna argument.
Ron Wyatt's "discovery" of "Noah's Ark".
Kent Hovind claiming that cave men used to hunt T-Rexes...and kill them by ripping off their arms.
Claims of human tracks among dinsaur tracks.
Crocoducks.
"There are no transitional fossils."
Creationist "Museums".
The Grand Canyon as evidence of the Great Flood.
The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics argument.
"Evolution is only a theory."
2007-05-24 11:18:03 · answer #5 · answered by Scott M 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have to admit that is one of my favorites too.
The good old "but thermodynamics says that everything expires in a closed system" is also one of my favorites.
Especially when I point out that the big yellow ball shining in the sky makes this an open system.
That's usually when they pout, call me childish names, and leave.
Funny.
2007-05-24 11:15:10 · answer #6 · answered by Yoda Green 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Young earth creationists have some howlers like saying a lump of coal can be formed by a flood 6000 years ago. It can but only if you define coal as a lump of soggy peat.
2007-05-24 11:13:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Irreducible complexity - "What's the use of half an eye?"
Instant speciation - "No dog ever came from a non-dog." I believe the guy who said that is still in jail...
The Painting Argument.
2007-05-24 11:14:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
"I believe in the big bang theory. God spoke, and BANG it happened." - stupid christian t-shirt
I love how people have no problem believing that a god came out of no where and magically made something out of nothing, yet it is too far fetched of an idea for them to consider the possibility that things may have happened due to cause and effect and random chance.
2007-05-24 11:18:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hence why I"ve included a link to an evolution tuition site for them in my profile. Hopefully at least they will learn the basics.
2007-05-24 11:15:25 · answer #10 · answered by Woody 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋