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Submitted by Ophios on April 20, 2007 - 2:23am.

I have an idea.
When arguing a creationist, and evolution gets brought up.
There is a chance the creationist will throw in a strawmanned version of evolution. Instead of using the old "That's not evolution" or, "Evolution doesn't work that way."

Just reply "I thought we were talking about evolution, but apparently you decided to change the subject."

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Sounds good. Might be a

Submitted by inspectormustard on April 20, 2007 - 2:28am.

Sounds good. Might be a good idea to throw in the name of the subject, for example:

 

"I thought we were talking about evolution, but if you want to talk about cosmology [or abiogenesis, since they love to go that route] that's fine too."

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inspectormustard

Submitted by Susan on April 21, 2007 - 12:13am.

inspectormustard wrote:

Sounds good. Might be a good idea to throw in the name of the subject, for example:

"I thought we were talking about evolution, but if you want to talk about cosmology [or abiogenesis, since they love to go that route] that's fine too."

That's assuming they would understand the word "cosmology" and not think you said "cosmotology". 

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