Head Slapping Dumb

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At the local playground I had a self professed Christian Creationist try to convince me that if I believed in the second law of thermodynamics that I obviously couldn't also believe in evolution.

Aside from the head-slapping dumbness of this I just wonder what he thought he was going to accomplish? That if he showed me how happy and comfortable he was being ignorant that I too would leap to being happily and comfortably ignorant?

Or, in evangelism via bad science, his inane argument was going to make me accept creationism and, from that, realize that the only logical course was to accept his version of Christianity right then and there? 

Since it was nearly time for me to take the little one home for lunch, and because I am naturally polite in public, I did not ask him if he was also a geocentric universe, flat-Earther, but the thought did cross my mind. Or perhaps say "you're right it couldn't be evolution, the world must have been vomited up by the white giant Mbombo! That had been preying on my mind, thanks for setting me right!"

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a mistake to assume that people who are head-slappingly WRONG must necessarily be dumb. Creationists -- like all ideologues -- can be quite intelligent people. However, they allow what they believe to trump what they know. One sees it in other areas -- benignly in things like sports-team fandom, less benignly in politics. But it's quite possible to be horrifyingly wrong and still be quite intelligent.