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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: 2) by VLM on Monday September 08 2014, @02:31PM
"once you drop the "it all needs to happen in 168 hours""
For some fun, try, something like, you petty little human, how dare you try to force an all powerful eternal god to use the same length hours as we use, just because our clocks happen to work at such and such speed so as a inferior to us his clocks must obey ours. If you continue on that path of disbelief, next thing you know you'll be telling god how to rewrite his commandments or revising the gospels to tell a different story. Go ahead, tell your all powerful god that you as a human do not permit him to take a billion of our years for one of his hours because you are a superior being as a human so he as a god has to obey you, just warn me ahead of time so I can cower under this lightning rod and start recording a youtube video because his response to your disrespect toward his lack of omnipotent power is likely to be pretty epic. Or TLDR I wouldn't go outside the range of a lightning rod if I was all "I forbid god from creating the cosmic microwave background and fossil record and he must obey me". Disbelief in his works as a doubting thomas and all that. Maybe if you repent and start to believe in his omnipotent works and convert to what he wants you to believe, which is clearly modern geology and modern evolution, then, if you're lucky, he won't damn you to eternal hell. Maybe.
Then again we have a lot of psuedo-christians going around insulting God to his face claiming to be worshipers while denigrating him constantly and they're not getting the lightning bolt treatment, so either he doesn't give a flying F or he doesn't exist, which tends to piss off his believers when you bring this second part of the argument up. So if he doesn't give a flying F about really naughty people, or he doesn't exist, then ignore him, and chill, it doesn't matter as long as you're not naughtier than the worst of us.