So I ran across this article over on Creation.com where they’re trying to provide a strategy for debating against atheists. I could go through the entire thing, it is ridiculous, but the best part was a single flow chart that shows everything that they’re doing wrong and trying to push all of the faults on the skeptics.

That’s not exactly a surprise, is it?

Before we get started, let’s put up the flow chart and you can chuckle as we go along.  It’s like these people are looking in the mirror and projecting.

 

Let’s look at all of these options one by one though because this whole thing is hypocritical.

A – Can you envision anything that will change your mind on the subject? Well isn’t that a problem for the religious? We can produce  tons of direct quotes from theists saying that absolutely nothing will ever change their minds on the existence of God. Go ask Ken Ham and William Lane Craig. Yet if you look at the scientists and science popularizers that asked those questions, they were very clear what it would take to change their minds. Evidence. It’s always evidence.

B – If one of your arguments are shown to be faulty, will you stop using it? That’s another one that the religious entirely ignore. Their entire repertoire of arguments are faulty, every single last one of them, yet  they continue to repeat them ad nauseum, even though they’ve been revealed to be fallacious time and time again.

C – Are you prepared to abide by the principles of reasoning? The religious fail there too. Why? Faith. Faith has absolutely no place in any rational discussion, yet it is at the core of everything that the religious believe. They can’t get rid of faith because without faith, they have nothing at all.

D – This whole thing is laughable when you understand the history of religious debate. It was the religious that introduced the Gish Gallop. They get backed into corners constantly and refuse to acknowledge their mistakes. They have absolutely no evidence for anything that they propose, it’s all fee-fees and zero facts and they claim that they have explanations that are simply not in evidence, just because they really wish that it worked out that way.

E – Did you breach any of these rules  in the discussion? The religious almost certainly did. If they actually had to follow these rules “religiously”, they’d lose nearly instantly. The simple fact is, they rely on dishonest tactics and if their feet are held to the fire, they can’t actually demonstrate anything.

F – Congratulations! This is how rational human beings exchange ideas. Yeah, but this isn’t how the religious operate, period! They won’t acknowledge it, of course. Their beliefs aren’t falsifiable at all. They operate on blind faith and emotional comfort. They have no evidence that they can present. They’re the ones doing everything wrong and ignoring the consequences and when called out on it, they scream that they’re being oppressed and run away crying.

This is not how you have a rational discussion, is it?