Posted: Nov 22, 2010 6:16 am
CADman2300 wrote:They couldn't have picked a worse lot for this news story, assuming you can even call that. Andy McIntosh is a combustion theorist who's been used before as an argument from authority by Answers in Genesis, and to make matters worse, the University of Leeds where he works has issued statements meant to distance themselves from the creationist propaganda that he promotes.
That Phil character was a complete ignoramus and Anne did a poor job trying to counter his literal take on the OT. To top it off, the pro-evolution guy they had in the end wasn't given nearly enough time to say anything meaningful and neither was Valerie. The show's whole debate was pointless and serves no purpose other than a propaganda tool by creatards to spread confusion.
Of course she did a poor job countering his biblical stance, she was working from a position of peddling a non-litteral interpretation. The simple fact is that the most fundamentalist ignoramuses have got it right, they are the ones who know and understand the text and what the words mean. You cannot defend the metaphorical interpretationist view against that and you never could.
Fundamentalist creotards have been winning these interpretationist arguments since day one.
The only way to address these claims are with hard science, the real-world facts. Not by engaging in philosowibble and apologetics. And for sure, a talkshow is not the proper way to do that.