Ethics

Fisking a Creationist Comment

By Ed Brayton

Someone named Ben left a comment on an almost 2 year old thread, so I'm moving it up here to answer it so it doesn't get lost. Ben shows the typical ignorance, both mundane and virulent, that we've come to expect from creationists. To wit:

If there are all these missing links that had to have happened and all these trial and errors in life, where are all the fossils? There should be a vast number of them. How come there's only a few found?

This is a good example of ignorance that is both mundane and virulent. The ignorance of the reality of the fossil record is mundane; the memorized platitude that there should be a vast number of such fossils is virulent - a ridiculous claim that is accepted credulously by creationists precisely because of their mundane ignorance of paleontology.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 02, 2008 (boomark / email).