At 6/26/09 10:19 PM, psychicpebble wrote:
I hate how some atheists go into deep conversations and act like they know everything and they know for a fact that you're wrong.
If I claimed to you that Australia doesn't exist, and you were to prove me wrong by using hard evidence, I wouldn't accuse you of acting like you 'knew everything'. I would either ignore your evidence and stick to my ignorant, misguided beliefs (the religious way) or I would accept your evidence and alter my beliefs accordingly.
It just gets irritating, they've never been dead
Well observed.
and don't know for certain how we got here or anything like that.
No, but at least atheists and scientists are actually making an effort to find out how we got here. If an inconsistency is found within a scientific theory, the scientists acknowledge and learn from it, and continue their research in another direction.
Creationists don't do this. When a contradiction or inconsistency is pointed out in their ideas, they will do one or more of the following:
Ignore it.
Claim that the nonsense in question is meant to be interpreted differently, or that it is open to interpretation.
Complain that they are being victimised.
Say that the person criticising their claim/s is "acting like they know everything".
Become aggressive.
Otherwise fail to acknowledge their ignorace.
They act so cocky and copy and paste facts from wikipedia...
Firstly, the knowledge it takes to refute a creationist's claims is so basic and logical that most people wouldn't need to do any kind of wikipedia-based research in order to make their point.
Secondly, even if what you said was true, so what? Copying and pasting a fact doesn't make that fact any less valid or accurate. And, if such information is so easily available that you can find it on Wikipedia, why are creationists refusing to acknowledge this information?