I've decided to make this thread to drop my ranting from the 'Creationists Dealt a Blow' thread, so as not to drive that one off-topic. EDIT: So apologies if it's a bit confusing near the beginning, when merging posts from other topics, they are displayed in chronological order.
Anyhow, I truly believe that debates/arguments about evolution, the existence of God, or the superiority of one religion over another, are all equally pointless.
Evolution - both sides of the argument seem so entrenched, and so unwilling to concede anything, that the entire debate has become a point-scoring farce. Let's leave that sort of thing for the politicians, eh?
The existence of God - if someone is obstinately determined not to believe in God, what the heck is the point of trying to disprove them? If someone came up to me and said, 'You know, I have scientific proof the sky is made entirely of potatoes', I wouldn't start an argument with him, I'd just roll my eyes and say, 'Rock on, buddy'.
Superiority of one religion - this is just silly. It's one thing defending allegations against your religion. It's another thing attacking other religions. To those who say it's to aid conversion, I say 'bull'. If I'm trying to sell you a tea set, what technique would you respond positively to? Technique a) I tell you how amazingly awesome the tea set I'm offering to sell you is, or technique b) I tell you how shoddy your current tea set is and how it corrupts society and your children.
At the heart of all this is the sheer futility of such arguments. What does it really matter to the way we live whether some people believe we descend from a common ancestor as apes, or some people believe we were created in our current form by a deity? Should we feel our own belief is threatened simply because someone else doesn't share it?
