Student, glad we’re in agreement. Quick answer to the question about my daughter. I can’t use logic with her. (BTW she’s 27 and about to be 28, far from a child now). She’s joined some type of Christian fundamentalist sect, that literally interprets the Bible, etc. When I try to argue with from any deductive view, she just refers to the Bible to override whatever I say. She’s also fallen for that group of pseudo-scientists that put forth the Intelligent-Design argument. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. They try to use statistical improbability to argue for God. Classic fallacy! Just because something is highly improbable, they jump in and say SEE it had to be an intelligent designer (Code word for God) that made everything. I know I’m ranting now, but bare with me. Here’s an example why I can’t argue with her. She says: Dad okay tell me something that didn’t have a creator? Then goes on with her ready make illogical argument-- Like if I take these cards and put them in this order, I am the one, that made that order right? I say: yes Asha. Well see there ya go. I then describe how thru a thermodynamic process a gaseous state like boiling water, will cool to liquid water, as energy always flows from a warm source to a colder one. Thereby, highly disorganized atoms (the gaseous state), will become a more structured order and if heat is further removed (by a natural process mind you, nobody pulling strings to make it happen), it will become very organized into a crystalline structure we know as ice. There Asha, here is a process that created a very organized structure and no God was necessary. You know what she says: Well God had to make the natural process in the 1st place! I say: Aiiiiiii ya ya ya… Kid there’s no arguing with you. They got you sold! Which of course she responds that I’m so into that ‘science stuff’ I can’t see the one true God, and his revelations, etc. etc. I write about her here, because is one internet site she’ll never visit, that’s for sure!
Don’t ever mention Charles Darwin to her. I honestly think her ‘church’–if can be called that, has a picture of Ol’ Charlie that they throw darts at every Sunday.