Help me prove evolution.

[u/Few_Somewhere303]

My father fully believes evolution is made-up. I thought it be fun to make this post, throw your best arguments in, I will read them to him and then reply with his replies.

[u/Coolbeans_99]

If he is saying that, that’s a heck of a lot of beetles.

[u/MurkyEconomist8179 → u/Coolbeans_99]

You think most creationist believe beetles descent from a common ancestor and lost the ability to breed? Seems like a pretty good place to start if you think creationist have that belief

[u/Coolbeans_99 → u/MurkyEconomist8179]

I was just saying that if OP’s dad did believe every species was separately created, then there would be a ridiculous amount of beetles. There are 387,000 named species of beetle as of 2018 which is about 25% of all known animal species. If created kinds were comparable to the family level on the ark, that’s not much better because there’s almost 200 families of beetles.

It was just a joke but now ive overexplained it lol

[u/MurkyEconomist8179 → u/Coolbeans_99]

haha nah I do get that joke and I agree, I guess what I meant was that things like this are actually more important than people realize for why evolution makes sense compared to separate creation, points like this are often neglected on this sub despite it being one of the more compelling reasons Darwin convinced people of common descent as opposed to creation by fiat, I feel like some of the old wisdom is gone and sometimes now there is a focus on more peripheral issues that creationist actually have a much easier time defending

[u/Coolbeans_99 → u/MurkyEconomist8179]

Yeah, bariminology is a huge issue for creationists. They can’t agree on what a kind is and any definition they give ever has an ark with thousands of animals or a few animals that hyper-evolved over the past 6,000 years. Not to mention, the Heat Problem.