Arguing with Creation(ists)

Ooh, I do like a good ding-dong argument, so who was I to decline when Fred, one of the neighbourhood’s friendly Jehovah’s Witness’ turned up on Saturday morning?

I usually ignore the door, when I am not expecting visitors that is, but yesterday we surprisingly were! So down the stairs I go to open the door for Gemma, only to find a stranger at the door. Interestingly, I had just been on t’internet, reading about Richard Dawkins new book ‘The God Delusion’, so I appreciated the timely interjection of the other side of the argument.

But, after a half hour of well-rehearsed but ultimately fruitless arguments, all of Fred’s arguments came down to ‘science cannot prove why we are here … therefore there must be a God’. There was also plenty of strawman arguing—“But have you ever seen a tomato plant turn into a mango plant? No? Then God must have designed it, what other explanation is there?”—enough to put you on the back foot until he had gone, when all the obvious arguments came flooding back to me…

In the interests of fairness, I agreed to take a copy of Awake and have a read. But again, it is all rubbish, silly arguments*, and I await his return for round 2!

I must admit, I don’t know everything (hard to believe, I know), but on the balance of probabilities, I am still erring on the side of nature rather than omnipotence.

*[exciting articles like “How can I defend my belief in Creationism in my science class?” – apparently you do it by exclaiming “The human body is too perfect and complex for it to have happened by accident, therefore it must have been designed!”, which I am sure will go down well as an alternative theory…]