Rajqawee wrote:ABC2019 wrote:do you know a way to answer someone who assures you that 2 + 2 = 5 without wanting to have the last word?
If this is really what you think (that the person in front of you is in absolute denial of an irrefutable thing), you have no interest in continuing the discussion.
it is each his tastes !! it can be interesting to continue the discussion to understand how we arrive at this kind of mental representation for example. It happened to me to exchange quite at length with a creationist "pure and hard" (like taking the Bible literally with a creation of the world less than 6000 years ago, the dinosaurs were contemporaries of the first men, etc .. .). Obviously I did not give him more credibility than 2 + 2 = 5. But I told him for example that the light of the Andromeda galaxy took 2 million years to reach us so I did not see how we could see it if the world was only 6000 years old. He started telling me that we didn't know his real distance, I explained the Cepheids a little to him and coughed ... Well, in the end, he was the one who stopped discussing ...