Ellimist said:
Ha, yes, my sympathies as well...
Steps to think like a creationist:
1. Stop thinking.
2. Deny the existence of evidence.
3. If evidence persists, explain it away: "god did it"
4. Research only in places where the word, "Jesus" appears no less than 348 times in a 10 square foot area.
Ha, actually, talkorigins is really good, and also take a look at this:
15 answers to creationist nonsense
It has the things that creationists contend.
Tell them that all of this:
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/projects/human/#
is a hoax to propogate the religion of science.
Also contend that carbon-dating is flawed and completley wrong (I have no idea how to substantiate that, but it is a creationist argument).
Talk about how the Bible was written before the theory of evolution.
There is always that goddamn "evolution is only a theory" argument. They would probably eat that up. But, being a biology major, the professors might kill you for not knowing what a theory is... maybe.
But, the most important thing to remember: stop thinking. That is what they do.
Good luck, and come back to tell us how it went.
Ellimist, do you really believe that what you say in this quote is true?
You don't think you are narrow-minded?
What are a creationist? There are only one kind, the human kind.
Evolution is only a theory, but that doesn't say it's wrong, evolution is right to a limit, beyond that limit we can't know, cause we don't have evidence and we don't have intelligence to find out. Why would that be such a problem for anyone to understand?
Do you really think people that believe in God stop thinking? It seems that way to you, but that's only because you wanted to find someone less intelligent than you, and you thought you found them, thus don't want to abandon that belief since you found comfort in it. Ahh there will allways be someone dumber than me...
Or do you feel frustration because they don't see what you see? They haven't realized what you have realized? They feel that way too you know...we all have people around us that just don't seem to get something that we get, but it may just as well be ourself that is lost.
The truth has been available to us at all times, it doesn't matter when the bible was written. People weren't dumber at that time - there were Einstein's even then, the only thing you see is how stupid you would be if you were to live at that time, people saw relations of things happening around them even then, there are so much that speaks the truth, just around the corner, do you really think it matters if the earth is round or not? Do you think it matters if we go around the sun or the sun goes around us? It doesn't, in the religious sense those knowledges have no advantage to us. The truth can be found everywhere, we doesn't have to know that the universe was created by a Big Bang, or that life was created by evolution, we still know that everything came from God.
Sometimes people use arguments that they thought was good for showing the truth, but they were mistaken, the truth is, there are no ground-breaking reason (at least not what we can explain) why we believe in God, we just know He exists. Whatever reason we have is lost in the explanation. Which means, we can say all the arguments, but we can't explain the feeling. The arguments are only the tip of the iceberg. Arguments because of attempts to show you the truth (which we actually have no way of showing) when it seems that there are no other way. The truth about God has to be found within oneself, we can give you every arguments that exists, but we can't give you the belief, we can give you the key, but you have to open the door.
At least let people believe what they want, everybody got their reasons. It's you that forces us to apply logic to feelings, to be able to explain them, allthough we allready know they are true from the beginning. Thus weakening the feelings since they are replaced by logic. What's intelligent for you doesn't need to be intelligent to God.
This post may sound weird to you...like blah blah blah, who can stand reading that shitty shit...
But then it is you who are a fool. Cause you haven't seen what I meant by it, do you really think I would write something while knowing that it's untrue? Don't you think that I have a reason for writing what I do? Why can't you find that reason? Is it that little voice inside you that tells you: "here's another one of these posts that try to seduce me into believing in something".
Remember that sad day that you found that Santa didn't exist, that magic was a illusion? That day when the world changed? Everybody have been through it, some of us took all the beliefs and ruled them as wrong, some of us understood that everything doesn't have to be false just because some of it were, and also some of us understood that God isn't santa, we believe in each thing by it's own, so if we find that santa don't exist, then God can exist despite that fact. Is that wrong?
Don't you have the understanding to find out for yourself if something is true or false?
I'm tired of these "He's wrong and he's right" kind of arguments, like as if we were the truth itself. I'm also tired of "He's right because he sounds right, and he's wrong because he sounds wrong" kind of arguments - also tired of these "He's wrong because he believe in God" etc.
That's all I had to say for now...
