darwin 0, mind-boggle 2
So in the middle of a meeting at work today the HR guy running our meeting refers to evolution as an unproven theory, and I turn to the girl behind me and say 'Can you believe he said that??'
She boggled appropriately, but the very next words out of her mouth were 'You mean you believe we came from apes?'
OH MY GOD.
I don't know why I bothered to try arguing. I said something like 'you mean you'd rather believe the universe is 6000 years old and people have been LYING EVERYWHERE FOREVER than believe we're descended from apes?'
She gave me a squinty-eyed shrug as if to say: 'don't you?'
Three responses I thought of making:
1) How the hell did you graduate high school, much less university?
2) If the Bible says 2+2=8, are you going to stop doing math, which is how you make your LIVING? (Corollary: the Bible does say pi is equal to exactly 3.0. Does that mean circles don't really exist?)
3) So, you've read what, two books in your life?
But I knew (just as I know starlight is MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD) that she would neither understand nor listen to any kind of rational argument, because people like this just do not accept rationality into their lives the way they accept Jesus. Many people have room for both. Not this breed.
You guys, I hardly paid attention the rest of the meeting. I was too busy staring around, wondering how many other people I have to interact with every day are this insane.
She boggled appropriately, but the very next words out of her mouth were 'You mean you believe we came from apes?'
OH MY GOD.
I don't know why I bothered to try arguing. I said something like 'you mean you'd rather believe the universe is 6000 years old and people have been LYING EVERYWHERE FOREVER than believe we're descended from apes?'
She gave me a squinty-eyed shrug as if to say: 'don't you?'
Three responses I thought of making:
1) How the hell did you graduate high school, much less university?
2) If the Bible says 2+2=8, are you going to stop doing math, which is how you make your LIVING? (Corollary: the Bible does say pi is equal to exactly 3.0. Does that mean circles don't really exist?)
3) So, you've read what, two books in your life?
But I knew (just as I know starlight is MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD) that she would neither understand nor listen to any kind of rational argument, because people like this just do not accept rationality into their lives the way they accept Jesus. Many people have room for both. Not this breed.
You guys, I hardly paid attention the rest of the meeting. I was too busy staring around, wondering how many other people I have to interact with every day are this insane.