"We can't hope to win debates with Christians. They have faith, all we have is logic, we can only aim to tie them"
-Michael Shermer
I have attended a couple of conferences where Shermer was speaking. Logic is not his strong point. Rhetoric is.
In the meantime, great imagination, pyre! But this is a science forum, and we really do prefer data, even with different interpretations. Storytelling really does belong somewhere else -- maybe at TalkOrigins?
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