Dog piling

It is intimidating, but I don't see less information as the solution. A better solution might be concise replies that do not overlap with previous posts. We should all strive to read all the replies to a given message and try to not repeat what others have said. Of course, an ideal world is always different from the real world.I think we can forget who our audience is. Creationists have often come from websites that have very concise and easy to understand "refutations" of evolution. Ignoring for the moment that these refutations are often misguided, there is one theme that we should keep in mind. There is a tendency for humans to trust easy to understand explanations more than complex and opaque explanations. Also, when we see someone giving a long and drawn out explanation with many twists and turns we suspect that they are trying to hide something. While this may not be the truth, this is one of the biases we have to deal with.For example, "If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes" is a very easy to understand argument. Taxonomy, phylogenetics, and cladistics is not easy to understand, much less how humans fit into these classifications and how evolution produces these relationships. We are asking creationists to move away from something that is easy to understand to something that is, at first glance, impossible to understand. Dog piling only worsens the problem.

If this was so perhaps you could have responded with a well thought out comment of your own instead of mocking my own. Actually, I tend to point to transitional fossils and genetic markers to demonstrate shared ancestry between humans and other apes. I really don't see biblical semantics as a refutation of creationism. Also, I have yet to see any creationist attempt to related ID and CSI to cladistics and the nested hierarchy of life. If anything, creationists ignore this evidence.So even in your mocking, you failed to truly understand the issue at hand. If anything, our discussion of geology in other forums is a much better example. In those threads you have humbly noted your lack of knowledge as it relates to geology, and things have gone much better in those threads. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning