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Tip #46 Let People Walk Away
Jan. 3rd, 2016 01:46 amOnce upon a time, an atheist blog posted an article about Answers In Genesis, the creationist organization responsible for, among other things, the Creationist Museum. As a result, many frequenters of AIG's website commented on that article, some on topic others not. In an effort to encourage conversation rather than shouting back and forth, I tried to engage in conversation.
One of the comm enters from AIG, in this conversation, pointed me to their website. The website claimed to provide evidence that the Shroud of Turin really was Jesus's burial shroud. Not only that, using physics in examining the fibers, the commentator's web page claimed to be able to prove that the shroud *had* to have been on someone who was dead for a time and then returned to life.
My response was to say "Your evidence is, at best, flawed". Those were my exact words. I remember those being my exact words because, from that point on, the commenter repeated them back to me in response to every comment I made. Someone made a comment about how Jupiter was supposed to have lost all its heat by now, were the universe millions of years old, I responded that it generates its own heat, and I get, from someone not involved in that conversation "Your conclusion is, at best, flawed". No matter what the comment, there was always some element that could be put into place. "Your (insert something here) is, at best, flawed."
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One of the comm enters from AIG, in this conversation, pointed me to their website. The website claimed to provide evidence that the Shroud of Turin really was Jesus's burial shroud. Not only that, using physics in examining the fibers, the commentator's web page claimed to be able to prove that the shroud *had* to have been on someone who was dead for a time and then returned to life.
My response was to say "Your evidence is, at best, flawed". Those were my exact words. I remember those being my exact words because, from that point on, the commenter repeated them back to me in response to every comment I made. Someone made a comment about how Jupiter was supposed to have lost all its heat by now, were the universe millions of years old, I responded that it generates its own heat, and I get, from someone not involved in that conversation "Your conclusion is, at best, flawed". No matter what the comment, there was always some element that could be put into place. "Your (insert something here) is, at best, flawed."
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