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   Message 140,843 of 142,579   
   RonO to jillery   
   Re: How To Teach Evolution To A Creation   
   28 Mar 25 08:47:46   
   
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   life, and order of creation of life.   
      
   >   
   > @4:26 We didn't like evolve from anything.  That doesn't make any   
   > sense.  I mean how can like an African-American person evolve from a   
   > white person?  We're different skin.   
      
   Weird argument that was almost nonexistant on TO.  Most Biblical   
   creationists understand that all the races on earth evolved from Noah's   
   family that survived on the Ark.  There have been some stupid   
   creationists that claimed that African Americans had the "mark of Cain",   
   but only the righteous were allowed on the Ark.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
   >   
   >   
   >     ***   
   >   
   > It's almost certain that T.O. readers have heard/read arguments   
   > similar to those above.  No matter how one might respond to them, ISTM   
   > the answers Valkai provides are, from an evolutionary perspective   
   > "good enough".   
      
      
   >   
   > And in response to the "Someone is wrong on the Internet" trope,   
   > Valkai offers the following:   
   >   
   >   
   >     ***   
   >   
   > @31:39 Teaching evolution to creationists is an uphill battle that's   
   > been raging for hundreds of years.  You're not going to win it   
   > overnight.  But if you can win over just one person, you will be   
   > freeing that person from the shackles of dogmatic thinking, and you'll   
   > be protecting the future from a population that would burn the world   
   > around them out of ignorance and fear.  And that is a very worthy   
   > endeavor.   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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