"This is not equivalent to saying he is generally uneducated, but that he is uneducated in the subject under discussion."
When a poster posts a comment in which they claim someone is uneducated and provides no clarity as to what they mean by that, then they have wronged the other person. A more correct term to use in such an instance is the word "ignorant" of the subject as opposed to uneducated in general (which is what that post implied). This is especially true when the poster's comment has no clarification, wouldn't you say?
Odds are this dispute started when one of them tried to say something ~ usually it's "You are liar" or "you ignorant".
LOL!! OK -- from now on we will call people "ignorant" instead of "uneducated." (FWIIW -- most people [IMHO] prefer the latter)
But if you want to invoke the "SoldierDad" rule to call ignorant people ignorant, we can try. But the mods seem to see "ignorant" as an insult and "uneducated" as an unfortunate circumstance.
What say ye, b_sharp?
This is a hot topic, and tempers flare. I may have been short with you, and if I have, I'm sorry. I hope we haven't gotten off on the wrong foot.
What I don't want to see is new folks like you getting roped in with some of these kooks. On this thread we have people who think western medicine is a fraud and the face on mars is real. Please, take what some of these people say with a grain of salt. Maybe a whole salt lick.
Evolutionary science is well established, and for good reason. It is a useful model, and it has applications beyond biology and medicine to such distant fields as computer science and oil exploration.
No one, and I mean no one is asking you to abandon your faith in the Lord. There are many, many people working in the sciences, including evolutionary biology, who are people of faith. Many people I know personally from biology and geosciences are church (or synagogue) going people and most have some measure of religious faith.
The people who say that evolution is the religion of socialism or Hitlerism are wrong. Those folks have an axe to grind. My purpose in these threads is to advocate in favor of science, and also the point of view that faith and science are not mutually exclusive. Frankly, there's a lot of BS in these threads, and I hate the idea of it being associated with conservative politics. I'm not the only one, either.