How To Teach Evolution To A Creationist

Here's a link to a 32-minute Youtube video I found both entertaining
and informative:

<https://youtu.be/hJvv2-Ky9Ck>

Sponsored by Center For Inquiry.  Forrest Valkai identifies specific
examples of some standard Creationist anti-evolution arguments, and
then gives his answers to them.  For those allergic to clicking on
Youtube videos, here are his first few examples:

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@2:47 Is it just me or is it impossible to line up animals in the way
they "evolved"?

@3:36 So, if we're taking that view of Darwinism we can ask how could
something like this, something like a mouse trap, be put together one
tiny step at a time?

@3:48 There are transitions within kinds but not from one kind to
another kind.  A cat doesn't evolve into a dog or vice versa. 

@3:56 Both humans and squid have a lens that projects an image onto a
retina.  That means that a very similar eye had to evolve twice. 

@4:04 No way! An eye is so amazing!  It seems impossible that it could
have evolved in the first place.  But now they believe it happened
twice?  Yep, that would be impossible times two.

@4:15 The discovery of information at the foundation of life in even
the simplest living cells provides strong grounds for inferring that a
designing intelligence played a role in the origin of life.

@4:26 We didn't like evolve from anything.  That doesn't make any
sense.  I mean how can like an African-American person evolve from a
white person?  We're different skin.


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It's almost certain that T.O. readers have heard/read arguments
similar to those above.  No matter how one might respond to them, ISTM
the answers Valkai provides are, from an evolutionary perspective
"good enough".

And in response to the "Someone is wrong on the Internet" trope,
Valkai offers the following:


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@31:39 Teaching evolution to creationists is an uphill battle that's
been raging for hundreds of years.  You're not going to win it
overnight.  But if you can win over just one person, you will be
freeing that person from the shackles of dogmatic thinking, and you'll
be protecting the future from a population that would burn the world
around them out of ignorance and fear.  And that is a very worthy
endeavor.

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