2014-02-05, 01:08 PM
icephoenix21 Wrote:Yet when I say something similar, I get pom'd for it
Your way with words must be better.
The difference is that the way your post was written it came off as though this debate in itself was pointless and they should just agree to disagree and stop the debate.
Sapta pointed out that the purpose isn't for the two debaters to persuade eachother but to persuade the undecided or people who aren't completely certain what they think is the truth.
And to me, such debates most definitely have value and are worth having.
SaptaZapta Wrote:To be fair, it's not like the evolutionists are willing to change their mindset, either.
I'm going to have to disagree here.
If you find evidence against evolution, evolutionists will not keep blindly defending it. Like with science in general paradigms can change.
And even though it might be hard to change the opinion of scientists all over the world because you found proof that the current paradigm is wrong, it is most definitely possible, you can see this video to see an example of just that:
[video=youtube;EZRTzOMHQ4s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZRTzOMHQ4s[/video]
That is where science and religion really stand apart, that science is willing to give up on things that have been proven to no longer hold true.
It just so happens that even 150 years later the theory of evolution is still by far the best scientific explanation available. However to bring up a fun example, if you were to find rabbits in the pre-cambrian era you would shoot an absolutely enormous hole in the theory of evolution since certainly no mammals should exist in the pre-cambrian era.