went to meet up with an overseas relative who dropped by Singapore for a visit yesterday.
i knew it was going to be an ill-fated rendezvous the moment he pointed to my t-shirt and asked, "how can someone as intelligent as you believe in that?" For those familiar with the TBB tees, i was wearing the one with the parody of the evolution of Man, with an ape morphing into a cyclist in aero position, along with the caption "Survival of the Fittest".
unfortunately for him he picked the wrong guy to comment on, and it didn't take long for a healthy "debate" to break out between us.
amongst his more ludicrous arguments for intelligent design was that evolution could not be proven and verified, therefore it was just a hypothesis. besides, look at the wonderful world around us - it could only have been the work of an omnipotent creator!
what about the fantastic work of fiction that is the bible, i retorted, its veracity cannot be confirmed as well!
oh no, the bible is the absolute truth! the deep sea scrolls prove its existence, and besides, there has been evidence to prove that there was most indeed a great flood (think grand canyon)! anyway, he added, the other world religions were just offshoots of christianity (somehow he tried to link the holy trinity to the 福禄寿 trio of chinese deities). so, given the huge amount of irrefutable evidence, it is impossible not to believe in god.
so argh.
i wonder what kind of indoctrination he receives each week at church, then i imagine how that damage is multiplied across the congregation, multiplied by the number of churches in london, then multiplied by the number of churches worldwide; repeat same exercise for the total number of religions in the world and their adherents.
then i wonder why the world is so screwed up. indeed religion poisons everything.
i think this is one relative i will not be seeing any more any time soon.
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