How Do You Constructively Discuss Science With A Creationist?
• Be very well-read. Stop by your local bookstore or library and pick up some issues of Natural History Magazine, Scientific American, Smithsonian, etc. or scholarly journals such as Cell and Nature (if you can understand what you read). Books can also be useful, but current publications are more important in this case. Keeping abreast of current research and discoveries will put you ahead of the game, and will help you catch disproved facts and obsolete studies. • It is not necessary to read cutting-edge research papers to debunk ID. ID is flawed at a very fundamental conceptual level. First, it depends upon a serious logical fallacy called the ‘argument by incredulity’. ID calls it ‘irreducible complexity’. ID claims that certain biological phenomena are so complicated that they (the ID proponent) cannot think of an explanation that does not include an intelligent creator. This is a failure of their intellect, not a failure of the scientific method. ID is actually anti-science for th
