I’m sure you’ve noticed how creationists only want to talk about their perceived flaws in evolutionary theory, but never about their preferred creationist explanations (they can’t, because they don’t have a reasonable creationist model to discuss.) Here’s a cartoon illustrating that fact.
It’s also the case that they think there is nothing to discuss: you either accept that god did it, or you’re wrong. It all makes conversations with them pointless and boring.
PZ, if confronted by one of these miscreants just say:
‘I refuse to engage in an intellectual argument with an unarmed person “
I see these irrational jebus thumpers on the news all the time. Someone is rescued by a skilled team of emergency responders risking their lives, yet the imbecile ignores the fact they owe their life to them and blubbers ‘god saved me, thank you jebus’
So, applying PZ’s idea to my comment in an extremely harsh manner (hope I don’t get banned for this) – –
the rational person says: there is no afterlife
the jebus thumper says: god told me there is, you have to prove there isn’t.
Whereupon a mugger comes up and says: ‘lets settle this’, shoots the jebus thumper dead and says: ‘Now, he’ll find out if there is an afterlife’
“You prove I can’t fly.”
That’s when you push the guy off of a tall building.