Ditto for my 8-year-old neighbor?
Yup.
Would you tell a piano virtuoso that he hit the wrong key playing Chopsticks, if he hit the wrong key playing chopsticks?
Maybe he's transposing it to a different key.
If not, and he hits an E when the music clearly shows a D sharp, then yes, I would point out that he hit the wrong note.
You know what they say about music. If you don't C#, you'll Bb.
Or would you say, "I don't have the capacity to answer that, as I don't have any idea whatsoever about music theory; but it sounded wrong."
Actually, I would never say that, as I have been playing piano since I was a little girl and I am quite good at it.
Evolution sounds wrong.
And it sounds wrong because it is wrong.
Yeah, that's a lousy reason for concluding something is wrong.
Most people say that it doesn't matter if you swap doors in the Monty Hall problem, that it's gonna be 50/50. When you tell them that they have better odds if they swap doors, they often disagree, because it
sounds wrong.
When you tell them that a hammer and a feather fall at the same speed in a vacuum, they often disagree because it
sounds wrong.
When you tell them that 0.999... is exactly equal to 1, they disagree, because it
sounds wrong.
But each of those things is right.
But of course, since you don't know anything about evolution, you aren't really in a position to judge how it sounds, are you?
And it is wrong because, for one, it goes against the Bible.
The Bible is wrong. Not because it sounds wrong, but because it disagrees with demonstrably true facts about the universe. The universe and the Bible disagree, and you'll have to work very hard indeed to convince me that the universe is wrong.
Yeah. The claim that something is wrong because it disagrees with something that you've just been told is true is a very convincing argument...