How do you stop arguing with fundamentalists? Should you?

[Guy Threepwood]

No, actually. In the scientific community, people realise that there are inevitable conclusions, likely interpretations, plausible ideas, and unlikely speculations. Einstein was dubious about quantum mechanics when it was still a likely interpretation, with no conclusive evidence, but he didn't call those who accepted it stupid. Plate tectonics was considered dubious because no one could see a mechanism.

scientists are human like the rest of us, Hoyle coined the term 'big bang' in mockery of the priest Lemaitre's primeval atom- which he he described as 'pseudo-science' 'resembling arguments for a creator' 'cannot be described in scientific terms'...
these are very passionate, emotional, ideological terms for a concept he simply didn't like the sound of.

Similarly Planck was a notable skeptic of atheism and observed that no amount of evidence would overcome the dogma of atheist academia at the time, a new generation would have to grow up open to scientific progress

If the people who believed in it had evidence, however weak, that would be true, but it doesn't even make it into the "unlikely speculation" category. The only thing it shows is how bad education is in some countries and how a few religions teach irrationality.

I agree there; Piltdown man could not have endured so many decades, spouting such scientific illiteracy without a lot of very very bad education in museums around the world. Could never happen today of course!!?

That would make your God a deliberate liar. How does that square with the Christian teaching of God's goodness?

The best way to appreciate any creation is to explore, learn, discover for ourselves. Nobody said this was an easy puzzle to solve, that does not make the designer of the puzzle a liar.

 

[psychoslice]

If someone doesn't keep questioning these fundamentalist who knows how the world will be in the future, maybe we would drift back to how it was in the past, the dark-ages, yes keep on the back of these simple minded people, until they wake up to themselves.