I had to concede to a believer “Perhaps you are right”

Yesterday a friend of mine confronted me regarding my atheism.

We had quite a long, involved and heated discussion and at one point I said to him:
“You are a very intelligent person, in fact far too intelligent to believe in god”

His immediate response was an angry:
“I most certainly am not”

I let that hang in the air as we both silently pondered its truth and I finally conceded:
“Perhaps you are right”

Tri County Times hotline submission.

This was posted on the hotline submission page of my local paper the Tri County Times.

"WHEN YOU CAN explain how a caterpillar decided it wanted to fly and turned itself into a butterfly, I'll start listening to your theories of evolution."

I don't blame the people who think that things like this are a valid argument. They have been completly failed by their schooling. America has a mostly useless school system.

My reply was:
WHEN YOU START using your brain for thinking and not simply as a repository for stupid statements I'll explain evolution to you. It's really quite simple, very beautiful and requires no fictitious characters.