Philip Norton

I answered a knock at the door the other day to be met by a pair of old women. The first thing the lead woman tried to give me was a copy of the Watchtower. As soon as I saw it I politely said that I wasn’t interested. When she asked my reasons we went into a 20 minute long discussion about evolution and the fallacy of stories in the bible.

Bearing in mind that this is the middle of winter and I was stood on my front door step with only a t-shirt and trousers on, my teeth started to chatter. After several attempts to say things like “well I’m getting cold” and “I’m busy now” Mandy had a go at them saying “My partner has been very reasonable and has asked you to leave no please go”. This was the break I needed and i simply said that I wasn’t going to close the door in their face, but that they should probably go now. so they left.

Their understanding of evolution was very poor, in fact their whole understanding of physics, including basic things like boyancy theory was totally skewed. They even started to state things like the human brain only uses 10% of its power, which I quickly deposed as the urban myth it is.

It is almost like they don’t want to listen. Like they are doing a sales pitch and they get comission for every person signed up.

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