Dialogue On Evolution with APOSL and Pantai Baptist Church

My good friend Samuel Nesan called me a few months ago to ask if the APOSL science club would like to debate about evolution. I immediately said yes. We met for dinner and talked about it. I envisioned a chance to engage creationists and also to tell them about evolution.

That botak head belongs to my friend.

However, when I approached the rest of the group, they were not too enthusiastic about it. They felt that by having a debate, they would be agreeing that there was something to debate about i.e. creationism had merit or there was still doubt about evolution.
In the end, it was left to Dr Kok Sen Wai to sort out the mechanics of the “debate” with Samuel and they both agreed to change it to a dialogue.

The creationists were represented by Mark (a young pastor) and Silas (a lay pastor). The APOSLs were Howe (a Christian who rejects creationism) and Sen Wai (an agnostic).
Silas opened the dialogue by stating that creationists are not science deniers but they disagree with Natural Selection. He gave examples of how small chihuahuas cannot reproduce great Danes. He touched on how the finches in the Galapagos all came from the finch family since they were all finches. He stated that mutation always resulted in bad offspring such as a two headed turtle and mutant flies with no wings, and he believes that there are no positive mutation. Dogs will reproduce dogs and cats will reproduce cats and never the other way around.

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