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Author Topic:   Why we should not expect many if any Creationists
ringo
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Message 9 of 107 (782010)
04-13-2016 12:23 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Dogmafood
04-12-2016 6:56 PM


ProtoTypical writes:
There must be some other dynamic at work that keeps them away as there is no shortage of them out there.
There may not be a shortage of people who believe in a Creator but there's a definite shortage of creationists who can make a cogent argument. Henry Morris spoon-fed creationists with cheap paperbacks, then the likes of Ham and Hovind spoon-fed them with videotapes and then with the Internet. But the Internet backfired on them because it's so easy to shoot down stupid arguments. Unless a new medium comes along, we're unlikely to see stupid arguments spewed as loudly as in the past.

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ringo
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Message 15 of 107 (782043)
04-14-2016 12:02 PM
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04-13-2016 11:35 PM


NoNukes writes:
The fundamental reason for such a situation is that Creationism is false.
You may be right. I've argued a number of unpopular positions, so I'm not afraid to be in the minority, but I've never been able to figure out how to argue a case that's factually false.

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Message 28 of 107 (782078)
04-15-2016 11:48 AM
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04-15-2016 10:57 AM


Re: It's not the Internet that's Changed
NoNukes writes:
Does that mean that people are different fundamentally?
It's like the old adage, "Guns don't kill people; people kill people." Yes, but guns enable people to exercise their anger, fear, etc. instantaneously.
Social media don't make people shallow - but they enable people to exercise their shallowness instantaneously.

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