Bloody Jehovah's Witnesses.
Two Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door today. Interesting; it's the first time that happened, and since I worked with a Jehovah's Witness last summer, I've been waiting for some to turn up so I could rubbish their garbage. They said, "when you look at a watch..." and I cringed inside a little, and called them up for false analogies. But I didn't do it as convincingly as I ought to've, because I failed to explain why the watch analogy is rubbish. I actually don't have it clear enough in my own head to do so, and I'll have to do some reading on it again. I do know why it is, I think; I just can't explain it to myself, and thus, to anyone else. Something to do with life's ability to procreate, and make itself more complex, and with every step along the way between cell and human being an end in itself, and that.
Fortunately, I did get other bits right; I explained abiogenesis (and remembered the name of the discipline!), talked briefly about how it's quite plausible that life could spontaneously be created, called them up on the "evolution = blind chance" strawman, and a bit else. Argh. Why do they always go on about evolution? Don't they know there to be much stronger arguments for theism?
Yes. An interesting event.
P.S. I haven't been dead the last while; I've been active elsewhere on the internet.
-James
Fortunately, I did get other bits right; I explained abiogenesis (and remembered the name of the discipline!), talked briefly about how it's quite plausible that life could spontaneously be created, called them up on the "evolution = blind chance" strawman, and a bit else. Argh. Why do they always go on about evolution? Don't they know there to be much stronger arguments for theism?
Yes. An interesting event.
P.S. I haven't been dead the last while; I've been active elsewhere on the internet.
-James