The Great Transfer - Maffs!

I've just watched a program called "The Story of Maths". It gave me a lot of information which I didn't know before, such as the mathematical contributions of the Egyptians and the Babylonians, who both foreshadowed the Pythagorean theorem and irrational numbers respectively, but it brought a good point to mind.

One of the usual arguments which Creationists pull out in their debates with logical people is that it's called The Theory of Evolution. These people assert, therefore, that we're not even certain about it and use their own certainty about God as a way of building their arguments.

However, I now have a perfect counter; the Pythagorean Theorem! It's called a Theorem, but by Odin it's got enough evidence behind it to be considered a fact, and the same goes for evolution!

Not that I get involved in random flaming wars with Creationists; the Creationists which I speak about are largely drawn from observation and imagination. I've known Creationists, probably, but never really gotten into any philosophical debates with them.

The only debates of this kind I've been involved in was a debate against the advocation of Anarchy which one of my friend's housemate asserted. She thought that a flavour of Anarchy which said that small communities should be created in order to allow the people to manage themselves. Her argument was that this was perfect and I agreed... if you assumed perfect people. All it would take would be one, megalomanical individual to start creating pacts with the other communities to grant themselves power and it would all fall apart; Africa and tribal politics are an example of this.

She essentially argued from idealism and naivety, and I argued from logic and cynicism. And this was when I was 20! It's a little odd to realize that you've been a cynic ever since you lost the ability to call yourself a teenager.

I hope the two aren't connected...