Okay, I know I can do this, but I need a little help. This is like butting my head against a wall, the guy is so stubborn! He just keeps saying that evolution is a religion over and over and over again. Thing is: he's not stupid. And he's an excellent debator. But I believe that people should be able to defend what they say and think or accept that they are wrong. And right now, I'm having trouble defending it because I'm underprepared! Can you help me?
I need advice on how to refute the following:
Evolution is a religion.
Evolution does not stick to biology, it attempts to explain all of how life arose.
Evolution is racist.
Teaching evolution in public school violates Christian students' rights.
There is no way stars and planets could have formed other than by creation.
He used this, which, I'm sure, was quote mined:
Quote:
Darwin, Charles, “The Descent of Man,” 2nd ed. (New York: A.L. Burt Co., 1874), 797 pp.
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes…will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes…will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
And there is WAY more than that. Check out the post.
