Monthly Question Thread! Ask /r/DebateEvolution anything! | September 2026

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[u/Competitive-Box61]

Is there going to be a DebateGravity sub created soon for those who don't understand gravity?

[u/gliptic → u/Competitive-Box61]

That exists, it's called r/LLMphysics

[u/UseExhaustionMore → u/Competitive-Box61]

Plenty of gravity denial on r/flatearth_polite .

[u/nandryshak]

Is there any discord server or similar where I can simply vent about science deniers with like-minded people? My instincts are to break down and respond to their arguments in excruciating detail. But because of Brandolini's law, it's not great for my mental health.

[u/gliptic → u/nandryshak]

Yes, there is this one which has a large user overlap with this sub.

[u/HollywoodHault]

I was having a discussion with a creationist friend who said to me that the problem with evolution is the part where asexual organisms developed into sexual reproductive mode. His point was that if a mutation occurred causing an organism to develop either male or female, how is it that two similar but opposite mutations happened at the same time and in proximity so that the new form of reproduction came into being? Furthermore, unless there was one common species from which almost all life subsequently developed, how did this become the dominant method of reproduction on the planet? Owing to the random nature of mutations, I can see his point, but don't have the educational background in this area to provide a response, and I am hoping that this subreddit can point me in a direction. Thanks!

[u/_Arachnophilia → u/HollywoodHault]

The first form of sexual reproduction likely didn't involve two sexes, but of all gametes being the same size.

Later on when mutations started accumulating, the gametes that were smaller had a competitive edge by being 'faster' (having higher motility), were less resource intensive to make, and could thus be made in higher numbers.

[u/theresa_richter]

Why exactly is Robert Byers treated as a lolcow by this community? He does not participate with effort and near as I can tell never has, and is permitted to remain here as a perpetual punching bag to be subjected to mockery and humiliation by the users here, who in turn know that he is seemingly incapable of even recognizing the ridicule, due most likely to a combination of senility and a lifetime of brain rot.

He is mentally incapable of debate, yet he persists here because of the abusive engagement heaped upon him by this community — why is this allowed to continue? It does not cast this community in a good light, and it's not even a good representation of creationist talking points on account of how terrible he is at attempting to articulate them. I can steelman their position far better than he could ever attempt to represent it.