02-23-2014, 05:14 PM
(02-23-2014, 03:57 PM)Maddolis link Wrote: You can't use logic to win over conspiracy nuts or the religious.
Believing what they believe makes them feel good for a variety of reasons, and while it is possible to ridicule someone out of their beliefs, I'm not sure how possible it is to do so over the internet.
It's not an easy subject, that's for sure. Last week we held a classical debate about this very subject. I'm a history major student, and together with all my friends who take the same major, we had to defend creationism. It's so that it would be more fair obviously, but still, other students have to defend the Evolution theory, and the third group had to defend Intelligent Design. Guess who won that debate? We did, the "creationists". Now I'll be honest, the spokesperson backing Darwinism/Evolution theory could've been far better; he even made several mistakes which made some of us nearly fall out of role, but anyway... It made me realise even more that this is harder than it seems. Discussing this over the internet makes it even worse.
It's not a fair subject either. Of course the theory of Evolution is logical and has a whole spectrum of proof behind it, but that's simply not how religious people think.