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For over a decade I have enjoyed debating with creationists who are capable of intelligent, rational conversation. Currently I am attempting to share my viewpoints with a coworker who is particularly intelligent and rational, but who is at this point a young-Earth creationist. We take turns posing questions and formulating replies, and have not once lost our cool with each other. At this point I would very much like to share with him what I learned on evolutionofdna.com some years ago while researching for a previous debate, but the site has apparently been down for some years with no sign of returning. Does anyone know a way of retrieving an archive of it, or obtaining what it once held through other channels? If so I would be deeply grateful.
(Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Monday September 08 2014, @01:21PM
I'm running into Poe's Law here ... is that a parody site, or serious?
Given http://www.myparentsopencarry.com/ [myparentsopencarry.com] is for real, it is legitimately hard to tell.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday September 08 2014, @01:29PM
As far as anyone knows, the Chick tracts are quite serious. They have their own TVTropes page: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/ChickTracts?from=Main.ChickTracts [tvtropes.org]
Warning: TVTropes will eat your afternoon. Only click if you have nothing better to do with the rest of your day.
(Score: 2) by khallow on Monday September 08 2014, @02:17PM
Serious. I've run into those things before when I was a kid in need of salvation, apparently. I remember one where some businessman gets rich, uppity, and up to his eyeballs in sin. When he kicks the bucket, he goes to the pearly gates and gets rejected. They don't take American Express (and of course, he's got to whine about that in a totally unsympathetic way). The last scene is some angel dumping him into the flaming pit while simultaneously doing the "eyes lifted to heaven" schtick. I'd walk into walls more than I do, if I did that all the time. The moral basically is that you'll be a nasty bastard in life and burn in hell in death, if you don't do exactly what we say.
It's a remarkably cruel thing to spring on a youngster who may not be mentally prepared to dispute even such outrageous and brazen propaganda. But it's the real deal.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08 2014, @08:14PM
Nope, it's for real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_tract#Anti-evolution [wikipedia.org]
(insert "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" obligatory cartoon here ...)