I had to turn this televised Face Off off pretty early. Kirk Cameron may be a nice guy, but he's no Aristotle. His pal Ray Comfort presented an Argument from Design as a proof of the existence of God . . . an absurd position. I didn't believe this argument when I was nine, so I think of it as extremely childish. I clicked off the TV when Cameron began yammering about evolution, and how no transitional species had ever been found, etc., a common creationist mistake. This one has an easy answer:

horse + donkey = mule

The ability of horses and donkeys to mate shows a relation; their offspring's inability to produce offspring by mating with similar such offspring* shows that donkeys are a transitional species away from horsekind, or the other way 'round, no?

Suffice it to say, had Kirk Cameron actually read Darwin's most famous work, he wouldn't be making such absurd statements. Variations are found throughout nature, in such abundance that transitional species are a dime a dozen.

By the way, a horse or donkey itself isn't proof of a maker. They came into being by sexual reproduction. They are not like paintings at all. When I see a horse, I don't immediately ask about its creator. I ask about a sire and a mare. Beyond that obvious question, things get complicated.

The Argument from Design is designed to simplify those complications in a hasty and rather deceitful way.

* The rare cases of mule reproduction all occur when a female mule mates with a male horse.

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