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shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThe intelligent design geniuses argue that the eye is too complex to have evolved.
“Of course it didn’t evolve like that! It started with a patch of light-sensitive cells and worked it’s way up from there. And that’s happened more than once.”
They have to think evolution means that creatures and features popped into existence fully formed. Not only because that’s how the Bible tells it, they can’t comprehend evolution on a 7,000-yo Earth.
You’ve got the killer argument though. “Why didn’t God bother to make our eyes like he did with the octopus?”
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I remember my stepdad citing Pokemon in his arguments against evolution
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn! Almost commented that they take evolution as Pokemon!
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
His theological understanding of pokemon was convoluted at best, haha.
He swore up and down that pokemon trainers were witches, and the pokemon were demons they could summon to act as their familiars, and their evolution was symbolic of how much satan’s power had corrupted the vessel.
Like, he thought you started with a mouse, then summoned a demon into it and bound it to make it your familiar, turning it into Pikachu. Then as Pikachu evolved into Raichu, that was a sign that satan’s power is further corrupting the poor mouse, one of god’s creatures.
QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Honestly that sounds like a pretty rad take on the creature-collector genre. I’d play that game, sounds like a spinoff of SMT. Maybe your stepdad missed his calling as a game designer
Meron35@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He was probably just caught up in the satanic panic against Pokémon in the 90s.
The situation was so serious that the Vatican had to “bless” the Pokémon 2000 movie in an attempt to tell evangelicals to chill.
Pokémon movie earns Papal blessing - nypost.com/2000/…/pokemon-earns-papal-blessing/
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
10/10 would watch the series “Pokedoms” (Pocket Demons I mean!! … hope the name isn’t taken, tho U would watch the other thing too).
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Was he senile?