Why do I bother? Basically because I’m fascinated by the fact that some people believe in creation, and also that things occurred during a certain time in the world’s history. I am an avid consumer of Roman and Egyptian history, as well as information on natural sciences and physics. I find that constructing arguments against creationist beliefs is actually a good basis for researching other scientific subjects. I don’t get into these conversations because I’m looking for an argument, I am honestly interested in the thought processes of people who ignore masses of evidence and research in favour of what an old book says. I’m not looking for an argument, but I do sometimes enjoy the debate, especially if the creationist has crafted their arguments well…and they have often been very thorough in developing their counter-arguments, even if it is just attempts to debunk rather than providing evidence of their own. A good example lies in Egyptian history – the date of their supposed global flood falls right in the middle of the 5th dynasty, but the Egyptians weren’t wiped out and carried on regardless. Creationists will just claim that many Egyptologists, despite their thorough research and evidence, got the dates wrong. But no creationist has ever presented evidence for a different time-line, they just dismiss the evidence of the experts.

I know I’m unlikely to change the minds of the hard-line creationists, but it saddens me to think that children are being exposed to ‘education’ that teaches them that humans co-existed with dinosaurs. That doesn’t set them up very well for life.