I see the problem as some folks equating religious belief with scientific evidence (Hey, there's a tagline in there!). Because they strongly believe something they don't feel the need to come into a scientific argument with scientific evidence. They use the Answers in Genesis nonsense and think that they are "smiting the evilutionists." Thus we get the "second law of thermal documents" and the like, as well as some very ridiculous arguments.
After a few hundred times explaining the most basic of scientific points, the patience of even the most patient of scientists can run thin.
This would all be avoided if the fundamentalists who have neither an interest in, nor knowledge of science would avoid the science threads.
This would all be avoided if the fundamentalists who have neither an interest in, nor knowledge of science would avoid the science threads.
***Well, the infrastructure is in place for you to have what you want. All you need to do is open a thread with the tag “Scientism” and keep it a caucus thread and it falls under the Religion Moderator’s purview to kick those “smiters” off the thread. You can have some cake; but you’ll have to eat it eventually.