[QUOTE="GabuEx"]Depends; do you want serious statements/questions or just lighthearted heckling material?domatron23
I figure I might as well start with a proper discussion and then develop it into outright trolling when I get bored.
Well, then you could start with the basics - ask, if evolution is false:
1. Why all life on Earth is interconnected through an increasingly large number of common traits the closer together taxonomically two animals are;
2. What, specially, allows microevolution but prevents macroevolution (or, if he denies even microevolution, how he explains superbugs that have grown to have an immunity to certain antibiotics);
3. If the answer to #2 is "evolution can only happen within species", whether he can even define what a species is and how an animal is classified as a separate species or as a subspecies;
4. Why there have been hundreds of fossils of animals for which paleontologists could not figure out which class of animal to place it into, considering the fossils simultaneously displayed traits of two; and
5. Why the diversity in species borne out through the fossil record becomes more diverse the closer the fossils are dated to the present day (i.e., why life became more complex as time elapsed).
If his answer to any of these is something questioning radiometric dating, then you can ask:
6. Why, when there are over forty different dating methods, they all arrive at the same date (within a few percentage points) when dating the same thing (including tree rings and ice cores);
7. Why radiometric dating has successfully dated lavas of a historically known age; and
8. If he raises the idea that we don't know the half-life has been constant throughout history, why anything exists at all, considering that half-life is as fundamental a property as mass or electric charge (and we know that creationists always note that the universe would fall apart if every single property were not defined just so).
And, just for kicks:
9. Whether he is aware of the fact that the banana bears minimal resemblance to the way it initially was, and indeed has gotten to where it is today through thousands of years of selective farming at the hands of humans (indeed, a wild, uncultivated banana looks like this); and
10. How he explains the coconut, the pineapple, and the tendency of an orange to squirt you in the eye when fumbling around in an attempt to peel it due to the fact that it has no "tab" whatsoever.
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