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57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 07:58AM

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Comment author: MatthewB 16 February 2010 06:23:35AM 3 points [-]

On the issue of "Have you ever seen an Ape evolving into a Human?" and the requested video tape (We get that too at RDF), I have found the following to be very helpful in showing just how stupid the claim is. Simply ask the person:

"How do you know that your father is really your father? Do you see him have sex with your mother to conceive you? How do you know that she did not have sex with someone else? Do you have a video tape to prove this?"

They of course, will have to admit that they take it as given based upon the testimony of their parents.

But, no creationist is going to let a thing like reality or evidence stand in their way. In the words of more than a few Creationists, such as the founder of the Creation Museum: If reality and scripture contradict, reality is wrong and scripture is right (paraphrased, as this has been stated in more ways than I could possibly recount here)

Comment author: [deleted] 18 February 2010 02:55:14PM *  -2 points [-]

Your challenge will qualify until you find the one person whose parents have taped every time they had sex and can provide the dates on said tapes. You may want to watch out, because now you never know when you might start having to provide evolution tapes :P

Of course... that would imply the person had watched their parents sex tapes, so you're probably still very safe.

Comment author: MatthewB 19 February 2010 12:53:34AM -2 points [-]

You still can't know that they taped themselves every time they had sex. Now can you know that either of them might have had sex with someone else that wasn't taped.