Lucy Lowe’s Creationist Conversation

Love that alliteration, don’t you? lol

Well, I read a comment Lucy Lowe (she’s under my blogroll as “A is for Atheist”) left on Chris Taylor’s blog (sharpeningiron.wordpress.com) and I remembered that it had been a few weeks (maybe three) since I last read her blog.

I went over there and found “The Argument Against Evolution,” which uses a lingual metaphor to make many relevant points about creationist argumentation. The metaphor is pretty dead-on and made the case against creationist propaganda in more poetic a way than I could have, for sure.

I was going to just reprint it here, but I think she deserves some more hits, so I’m just going to give you the link and a quick excerpt.

http://ichigostarfish.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/the-argument-against-evolution/

“Mr. C: So what does “misology” mean?

Me: I don’t know.

Mr C: Ha! Then you don’t speak English!

Me: (confused) Umm…I don’t follow you.

Mr C: (Triumphant) You don’t know what misology means, therefore you don’t speak English.

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Mr C: (Beaming) Furthermore, as I have now proved you cannot speak English it follows that you must speak French!

Me: I….excuse me? Wait, wait…Even if I don’t speak English, why does that mean I speak French? What about…Spanish? Or Chinese?

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Mr C: French is the only true language. Things like Chochenyo, Tillamook and Jassic are dead languages. French is a living language! People who speak things like Arabic and Chinese are mistaken and are going to go to Hell. I believe in the one true language, French!

Me: So, even though I know thousands of thousands of words in English and can construct clear, meaningful sentences, I don’t speak English because I don’t know what misology means?”

Great, right? Now go read the rest!

Here’s that link again:

http://ichigostarfish.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/the-argument-against-evolution