{"id":274,"date":"2012-03-16T23:19:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T03:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2023-02-11T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T02:29:21","slug":"what-to-do-if-youre-talking-with-a-creationist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/what-to-do-if-youre-talking-with-a-creationist\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do if you’re talking with a creationist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Has this happened to you? Someone is telling you about creationism and you’re pretty sure they’re wrong but you’re not sure exactly what to say. Here’s a YouTube video I came across that will help.<\/p>\n

Top Ten Creationist Arguments<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s a great blog on evolution and creationism. It keeps you up to date on new findings in evolution, as well as what creationists are up to.<\/p>\n

ScienceDenial: Documenting massive ostrichification in action<\/a><\/p>\n

For even more information on evolution, I recommend Richard Dawkins’ book The Ancestor’s Tale<\/strong>. It progresses backwards through time. The first section is about the common ancestor of all of humanity, the second section is about the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees — by the eleventh section you get to the common ancestor of humans and rabbits. I didn’t have enough science background to understand it all, but what I did understand was fascinating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has this happened to you? Someone is telling you about creationism and you’re pretty sure they’re wrong but you’re not sure exactly what to say. Here’s a YouTube video I came across that will help. Top Ten Creationist Arguments And here’s a great blog on evolution and creationism. It keeps you up to date on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[156,21,19],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-creationism","tag-evolution","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}