Creationist: The Fight to Save Endangered Species Proves Evolution is a Lie – Friendly Atheist – Patheos

Matt Powell, the hate-preacher and Creationist who appears to have dedicated his life to making atheists look smart, has done it again.

Fresh off of his claim that evolution is racist because it supposedly teaches that we evolved from African Americans even though there are African Americans that are still alive today yes, hes really that dumb Powell is back with a new argument to disprove evolution using toddler logic. (Or, as Creationists call it, Ph.D.-level thinking.)

(In case he deletes that video out of embarrassment, heres a mirror.)

His argument goes like this.

1) Evolutionists often say they want to save endangered species. (Yes.)2) That means there are species going extinct. (Yes.)3) But according to evolution, species should be getting created all the time through natural selection. (Yes, but not the way he thinks.)4) Therefore, by trying to save the animals, evolutionists are admitting that evolution will never invent these new species through natural selection. (Oh Christ)

Checkmate, atheists says the guy who doesnt understand chess.

Its true that species go extinct all the time and thats unfortunately accelerating. We may want to save them for a variety of reasons, ranging from purely aesthetic reasons to preserving a particular ecosystem. Theres also an argument that every living thing has a unique genetic identity that could be useful to understand for reasons we cant quite fathom just yet; if theyre gone for good, we miss out on all that potential knowledge.

Its not that natural selection wont produce new species in the future; of course it will. Its doing that as we speak, slowly and imperceptibly. The problem is that evolution doesnt work quickly and were (almost certainly) never going to get those exact species back no matter how long we wait.

Theres a famous thought experiment in the world of evolution: If we could start over, would we evolve the same way? Certain traits (like sight) would undoubtedly emerge again. But humans? Looking and sounding like we do right now? Probably not.

If certain rhinos or elephants disappear and that could happen we wont live to see those animals suddenly emerge out of nowhere or whatever Powell thinks evolution demands.

He doesnt understand the topic, so he makes up his own definition of how evolution works in a way that no evolutionary biologist would ever accept, then doubles down on his own misunderstandings. And he presents himself as an expert in every video even though hes not even a student who could get a passing grade in a basic science class.

The end of the video features even more of his unearned Christian cockiness. He tries to trash atheists for not having a perfectly defined purpose to their life and then does some weird Creationists word-twist:

what [atheists are] admitting is that theyre making up or make-believing a purpose for life. They dont think there actually is any purpose, and so they say, Well, Ill just make up purpose.

Thats make believe, folks! These people are make-believers!

Leave it to the Adam-and-Eve-were-the-first-two-humans-alive people to mock atheists for making things up when all were doing is accepting reality.

Listen, Matt: Find some new friends. Find anyone who cares about you enough to stop you from embarrassing yourself. Take some time off and learn about the thing you so desperately want to disprove. Because right now, you sound like an Introduction to Physics student who insists every astrophysicist is getting the universe all wrong.

Get some humility. Or at least run your scripts by someone who understands the topic before you etch your ignorance in stone.

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