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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
I don't think gravity is a good comparable, do you? Gravity has held up to tests, scientific and not, a bazillion times every day.
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The effect of gravity has been observed, but we actually understand far less about the how and why of gravity than we do evolution. We've devised the biggest, most expensive experiment in human history (The LHC) to help us find out more about gravity, a profoundly mysterious force in the universe.
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It's a much more difficult concept for a person to get their head around than is gravity or the spherical shape of our planet, things that can bee seen.
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But it's easy to claim that the effects of evolution are as simply observed as the effects of gravity. A simple glance at the similarities between all mammals has always been enough for people to conclude that these creatures are related to each other in some fashion. Likewise, things are drawn towards the earth, the effect of gravity simply observed, but the concept that mass causes fluctuations in space-time which curve the trajectories of other objects with mass - which is as far as we've gotten in our understanding of gravity - is a very,
very weird concept which I don't think a lot of people actually 'have their head around.
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I don't think it's fair and definitely not very noble. It almost certainly won't help him further his cause and it's the exact reason why I despise organized religion. Self-righteousness is not a virtue, and you can define my term the correct way (religion, morality) or my newly made up way (proclaimation of ultimate correctness).
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I agree completely. Telling someone they are stupid if they don't buy never helps you convince them of whatever you're selling. Unless it's a Sham-WOW. Those things sell themselves.