Hehe, I knew that thread topic would get me lots & lots of hits! OK, here's the situation: my dear friend refuses to be convinced that we were not created by aliens (or some higher form of life, apparently outside the Universe) about 8,000 or so years ago. Here are the arguments I have presented to him and what he said. Please help me prove this guy's beliefs wrong! He is damn stubborn, and I love getting him all hot-n-puffed up in an argument...
Question: Since we were created by Higher Intelligence, where is the HI now?
Answer: Outside our Universe. (ARGHARGH this has to be the worst one...)
Question: Explain the fossil record, and why more primitive creatures are ALWAYS at the bottom and more complex ones higher up in the various strata we have investigated.
Answer: That's just a coincidence, and you can make the fossil record say whatever you want.
Question: Then why don't we find Brontosaurs next to ancient human skeletons in caves (an exaggeration!)
Answer: Coincidence....weak, WEAK answer!
Question: OK, since we were created by these HIs, why do we share so many useless chromosomes with other animals? Why in fact are our chromosomes in any way related to those of other animals? Wouldn't it have been more efficient to have just one set of highly specialized 'human' chromosomes and so forth?
Answer: Because the HIs used a template, containing only certain chromosomes.
Question: So then why are there cetaceans at all? Surely some evolutionary process was responsible for THEM, since it's obvious that they were once land living, what with the vestigial hind limbs etc?
Answer: The HIs made them for diversity, and they were never semi-aquatic, that is obviously ridiculous!
Also, this guy believes there is a vast conspiracy theory related to the whole science of Archeology, and that all the millions of amateur archeologists out there are in on it. ARGH! How do I convince this guy that he is BEYOND deluded?
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