Reply #5: It's like debating a rock, a particularly dumb rock

[Xeric]

There is nothing I find more pathetic than some Jethro attempting to argue his creation "science" with the full weight of the vast majority of scientific fact against him. Who should I believe, some bozo with a sixth grade education who thinks science is some evil conspiracy against his confused religiosity, or Nobel prize winners? It's not surprising your "preacher" wasn't able to discern that you were mocking his ignorance. He's simply incapable of seeing reality, except through his filtered lens of superstition. No amount of facts will dissuade him. The fact that more than half the population is like him is truely sad. This is what happens when science and math are not taught adequately in schools and when a society allows the religious extremists to indoctrinate its children.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. Proverbs 14.7