Posted: Apr 19, 2017 3:00 pm
Tzelemel wrote:Gila Guerilla wrote:Evolutionist: "Such and such an evolutionary line split off from such and such else evolutionary line, X hundreds of thousands of years ago".
Creationist: "That's wrong - were you there ??? (Sucker)."
Evolutionist: "How can you say it didn't happen - were you there ??? (Back at you)."
That's a terrible counterargument, because they'll just point to the Bible, then you have to waste time debating the Bible.
My counterargument would be, "So, are you saying that we should let all the murderers free? After all, none of the detectives or prosecutors were there to witness the crime."
Then they'd bring up examples of wrongful conviction occurring to justify their argument that nobody knows for sure because 'you weren't there'. Then the argument from Rashomon etc. Then comes the argument of 'The facts are the same. Just that we interpret the facts differently'. I don't know if I've got a snappy, vivid argument that demolishes this in one or two sentences.