[tlb]

>>>Yesterday I almost hit the abuse button on this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273626/posts which attempts to link Trotskyite communism to a belief in Darwin’s theories...absurd!

It wouldn’t have done you any good. I have hit the abuse button before on the flat earth threads, not on the basis of content, but simply because this crap isn’t NEWS. Defense of Genesis belongs in the RELIGION forum, or at least CHAT. My objections, and those of others were simply ignored.

I’m for people discussing whatever they want. But giving flat earth bloggers precedence in the NEWS forum while legitimate science discussions are routinely pushed into CHAT debases this entire website and undercuts our credibility on issues that really matter.

Rense.com pushes Bigfoot, Contrails, and UFOs. And FreeRepublic is becoming the place to be for the 6000 year old earth and people who think ALL science is a fraud. How screwed up is it that Rense is becoming relatively more intellectually serious.

[muawiyah]

Again, a problem dealing with people who read the Bible ~ no, not all those who read the Bible are trying to impose a religious outlook on anybody. Since it's one of the most comprehensive of the ancient bodies of literature, there are some quite secular reasons to read it and evaluate what it says ~ one current archaeological reason is to see if it has "content" that predates writing, and did any of that "content" originate during the last period of maximum glaciation.

Tossing all such materials into the Religious category, or Chatroom, is probably out of line. Similarly, tossing all "I can't stand Bible reading" materials into the Anti-semite category might be just as out of line.

And say, why don't we have an Anti-semite category?