I’m not generally one to get over-excited about peoples’ bad reasons for being creationists, but the leap from “Evolution due to natural selection doesn’t provide obvious explanations for every single thing that every living thing ever does or has” to “The King James Version of the Bible as generally remembered and interpreted by Protestants is exactly right” is always staggering when I can tease it out of people explicitly.
As far as non-kinesthetic responses to awful arguments go, I guess I would call it a general feeling of discomfort. Like, “Someone’s brain really just output that series of words, and I’m very upset to live in a universe where that’s the case.” Sort of like the discomfort of watching someone you can’t help who’s in a bad situation.
I’m not generally one to get over-excited about peoples’ bad reasons for being creationists, but the leap from “Evolution due to natural selection doesn’t provide obvious explanations for every single thing that every living thing ever does or has” to “The King James Version of the Bible as generally remembered and interpreted by Protestants is exactly right” is always staggering when I can tease it out of people explicitly.
As far as non-kinesthetic responses to awful arguments go, I guess I would call it a general feeling of discomfort. Like, “Someone’s brain really just output that series of words, and I’m very upset to live in a universe where that’s the case.” Sort of like the discomfort of watching someone you can’t help who’s in a bad situation.