The difference between the tooth fairy and Darwinian evolution (as Richard Dawkins likes to call it) is that kids are eventually told the truth about the tooth fairy.
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Sounds like a frustrated five year old responding to his dad "No, you're not old enough to drive."
Send the sting back, without a clue how foolish it makes you sound.
Of course kids don´t get to know truth about evolution. Because IT IS truth and there is nothing secret about it. In fact, I´d say it´s worldwide accepted as such. Almost like if there were tons of evidence behind it, don´t you think Ray?
Richard Dawkins calls it Darwinian evolution?
The difference between the tooth fairy and evolution is that one is lies told by parents (I guess*), and the other is basic biology told by teachers.
*We don't have "the tooth fairy" in Sweden, to my knowledge.
We do have scientific knowledge and research, though.
So... still chatting to your "invisible friend" Ray? The one with magic powers and a get-out-of-eternal-jail-free card just for you? The one who filled a garden with talking snakes and magical fruit trees so two people who didn't know good from evil could be tricked into being wicked[*]? The one who sacrificed himself to himself so he could change a rule he himself had made up? The one who allows evil to exist because we have free will, but promises you'll go to an eternal heaven free from evil[**]?
Just checking.
[*Presumably they left the barrels of fish and shotgun bushes out of the bible for space reasons!]
[**That would be one without that pesky free will then!]
I'm starting a petition to have Ray deported back to New Zealand. I mean, seriously, we have enough home grown lunatics.
And while he's on the way, he can drop Ken Ham off in Australia.
"A witty saying proves nothing."
-Voltaire
Forgive me, fellow commentators. I did not mean to imply that Comfort has any wit in him. The point still stands, however.
The difference between the tooth fairy and God is that kids are eventually told the truth about the tooth fairy.
Let's be careful about using that joke/argument, Ray, eh?
> "kids are eventually told the truth about the tooth fairy."
"Eventually"?!
Surely no one ever took "the tooth fairy" seriously, did they? I certainly knew exactly where those tiny coins came from (and where my teeth went).
And the truth about your Biblical God is that he's an invention of men, He's a created character pulled from traceable fables. Dawkins IS telling the truth about your own personal tooth fairy.
While Ray lies his fool ass off.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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