conuly

Today we went over some complaints against the teleological argument (um... basically creationism/intelligent design), the most popular, and obvious being the theory of evolution. We went over evolution, and Occam's Razor (the simplest explanation that fits the evidence is probably the correct one). And then he speaks up. Evolution, he says, is crazy. Darwin, he says, is crazy. Everybody who disagrees with him is, by implication, crazy, and if he says that again I'm smacking the crap out of him because it is FUCKING RUDE.

Once again, the professor (who does have a name, I'm sure) got irritated and said "we could've all been made by martians, that's one theory, but it means we have to assume the existance of martians" prompting the reply:

Martians do not exist. ALIENS exist, but not martians.

Nobody, at this point, could hold in the giggles.

I agree, the odds for extraterrestial life are probably greater than the odds against it. But, at the moment, we have no proof. We have more proof for the existance of God, and most people just take that on faith! And how does he know there are no Martians? Can he prove it? No more than I can prove there's no god.

It's funny, sure, but not as funny as it would be if we didn't have only a MONTH to learn the subject.