Quite so. For one thing, we didn't toss a coin to see who would argue for which position. Well, I didn't. If you did, that might explain where you went wrong.
A second thing: when you debate issues of science, data (evidence) is what counts. Debating tricks/techniques/tactics might appear to carry the issue (such as creationists and their gish gallop, etc.) but those things do not hold up for long in the face of accumulated evidence, which is the forte of science.
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
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