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No more debates. Debates are a lousy way to settle anything.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/19/the-wisdom-of-rick-and-morty/
@pzmyers @bgcarlisle The alternative is escalation of violence and ignorance.
@jeffcliff @bgcarlisle No. The alternative to debate is smarter engagement with the audience you want to address.
@pzmyers @bgcarlisle The audience being creationists?
@jeffcliff @bgcarlisle Anyone. Debate is an ineffective way to reach anyone.
@pzmyers @bgcarlisle and yet it does reach people. The 1860 Oxford evolution debate reached Hitchens, for example. We'd all be poorer had not it been effective with him.
