Icthus writes:
Either way, creationism has been accepted far longer and even now by far more people than evolutionism. By sheer numbers, let along the truth, creationism wins.
So on this basis, you believe that the sun goes round the earth, presumably, and that diseases are caused by evil spirits.
In your earlier post, you talked about the rudeness of evolutionists, but it cuts both ways, I can assure you, and we've all been called names and condemned to eternal damnation by your creationist brethren. Love thy enemy, indeed, but not if he's an evolutionist.
On the topic, do you understand what is ridiculous about it?
The main point isn't that, as a creationist, you clearly don't believe that you descend from other (extinct) species. What evolutionists often react strongly to is the misrepresentation of evolutionary theory by so many creationists.
If you're a young earth Christian creationist, for example, and I kept saying that you believed that mankind was made out of leaves by the angels 2,000 years ago, and then argued against that, I would be arguing against something I'd invented myself, a straw man, and you might well object, correctly, to my having misrepresented your beliefs.
That's so often the case when creationists argue against evolution.
"By all means disagree", we could say to the guy who started this thread, "but at least learn what it is you're disagreeing with."
The evolutionary view is that we descended from a common ancestor with the chimps, and going back further, the gorillas, and even further, the other apes, but all branches have evolved into the modern versions and are different from the common ancestors. There's no reason why the other branches should be extinct, which is why there are still apes. Just like there are lots of different members of the cat family who descend from a common ancestor, some species more recently related than others.
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