Taking Candy From a Baby

When we are young, we are constantly attempting to find out what the reality that we walk about in is all about. Toddlers are constantly touching, tasting, and really testing their whole world. When children are young, like in grade school or middle school, they value a lot what older more mature people say. They are very formative. They also do not have the ability to properly defend all their points of view. Normally if they have an idea that is in conflict with somebody else’s, they fight it emotionally rather then rationally. But generally, it is relatively easy to get them to change their mind and especially to win an argument.

I say all of this, to explain a bit of what I felt like today and yesterday. I’m currently taking Introduction to Anthropology (ANT 111). My instructor, Professor Taff, has been studying evolution and material related to it for most of his life. He is a very well educated man, who obviously understands logic. He opened up the class floor to discuss the validity of evolution. I tried to bring up some of the arguments that I have heard on creationism defense, but was shut down on every attempt. I have read sparsely about evolution, but logically it seems that evolution does not work. The problem is that I don’t know any of the proof. I didn’t have any sort of scientific evidence to back it up. So in my going back and forth with Taff, I lost miserably. It must have been like taking candy from a baby.