I’ve got a creationist right now hanging around my blog. It’s been…interesting. Pretty by-the-book stuff, arguments from irreducible complexity, life can’t come from non-life, there are no transitional fossils, evolution can’t be replicated in the lab, and my favorite, the argument that the 2nd law of thermodynamics makes evolution impossible.

What I find really amusing (in a sad way) about these sorts of arguments is that they are so arrogant. These people use their arguments from personal incredulity and arguments from ignorance to support everything. And in turn, they think that their gripes against evolution are actually novel, like if they bring up irreducible complexity even the most learned biologist is going to be stumped and say, “Oh gee, that’s a good point…I hadn’t thought of it before.” They actually think that they, lay people, people with degrees from Patriot U, are able to outsmart people who have dedicated their lives to studying evolution and biology. They think that their armchair observations are enough to dismantle the entire theory. How conceited is that?