Solution to Anti-Evolutionists: Natural Selection
I don't know how things are around you, but out here in eastern Indiana, the debate of Creation vs. Evolution rages on. We've got Dr. Terry Mortensen coming to town from AiG in a week, the local newspaper forums with a constant struggle between rationality and stupidity, etc.
Well I've got a solution for it all. Creationists should stand up for their cause by swearing off modern Medicine and Doctors. Modern Biology pretty much owes everything about it to the Theory of Evolution. So every time you take cold medicine, get a flu shot, or use anti-fungal creams you are receiving the benefits of many scientists who worked very hard and firmly believed in the idea of Evolution. (For what it's worth, some of them may also have believed in God, but it's highly unlikely that any of them were creationists).
As such, Creationists should just swear off medicine. Get a cold? Pray it away! Vomiting from the flu virus? Don't take medicine, because you're using the outcome of years of people believing in Evolution!
After several decades of this, one of two things will happen:
1) They'll die off from not using modern medicine. Yay for rational thought!
2) In an ironic twist of fate, they actually develop better immune systems and are able to survive some kind of super-bug that plagues the rest of us.
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Speed of light
They should have to swear off most technology as well. Without the equation for the speed of light, which proves that stars are billions of years old, most electronics would not exist. No medicine no lights, cars, heating and cooling systems, cell phones, etc. It seems very fitting that not only is the creationist ideology suited for the dark ages, it belongs there.
This post bothers me for
This post bothers me for two reasons:
First of all, it over-states the relationship between the theory of evolution and modern medicine (there's no medicine that depends on the factual truth of common descent, which is what creationists deny). Now, of course we all know that there are a series of arguments that connect the biology that medicine depends on up to evolution in a grander sense, but these are the arguments that creationists reject (not the arguments that the medical community relies on to create medicine.)
And second, it misrepresents the creationist dogmas for the sake of an easy strawman. This is exactly what creationists do with evolutionists' claim, and it really slows down the conversation.
This is not helping. Making fun of the "other side" may be amusing, but it's not clarifying the situation. We now have a more twisted, silly view of what creationists believe than we already had.
humor
Well - I did write it not intending for it to be taken seriously. Logically, it's likely riddled with fallacies (straw man included) -- but I wasn't considering any of those when I wrote it, hence the ironic ending.
I understand your concern, as anything we say is fair game for criticism back at us (and really, wishing poor health on your opponents, regardless what their stance is, is hardly an honorable thing). Just view it with some levity -- I wasn't trying to be taken seriously with it.