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The evidence for evolution can stand on its own. You've never tried to talk to a Creationist, have you?

• mhartl 17y ago
  Of course I have, or at least I did in my misspent youth. Creationists are hard to convince. But you seem to suggest that, absent being able to convince a creationist with evidence, scientists should resort to naked argument from authority: "there's an overwhelming scientific consensus". But that doesn't work, either: few creationists have ever embraced evolution because of the "scientific consensus", and in the process it makes the actual arguments for evolution look weak.