[PatrickHenry]

Evolution Ping The List-O-Links

A conservative, pro-evolution science list, now with over 390 names. See the list's explanation, then FReepmail to be added or dropped. To assist beginners: But it's "just a theory", Evo-Troll's Toolkit, and How to argue against a scientific theory.

[freedumb2003]

The link sort of goes to my pings -- where did you want it to take us?

[longshadow]

Found it:

To: Godel, physicist

I want to take a few minutes to thank all of you for your input. This poll was more popular than I had thought and I appreciate even your criticism of the questions (can't please everyone).

I'm taking down the poll now because although I didn't get exactly the information I had been expecting, as often happens in the field of discovery, I learned some very interesting things nonetheless.

The final results of the poll are as follows:

Which do you believe?
Evolution. 13.0% (225)
Creation. 86.7% (1501)
I don't know/care. 0.3% (6)
Total votes: 1732

Below are a list of those posters who attempted to violate the integrity of the poll. The last byte has been changed to protect the guilty (but if you mail me I will talk):

165.76.125.*** - Voted for Creation 990 times.
63.175.96.*** - Voted for Creation 399 times.

This is a somewhat appalling revelation about the honesty of certain extremists of the Creationist side. I admit I had not expected this, if anything I would have expected those who place such a high value on literal interpretations of the Bible to have a well developed sense of ethics and not desire to dishonestly inflate the prominence of their beliefs. I am enlightened by this experience.

For those who are interested the adjusted results after discarding the 1387 false votes by these 2 most egregious respondants are:

225 - Evolution
114 - Creation

137 Posted on 03/01/2001 11:02:59 PST by Godel

There you have it; as I said if this poll can be outfoxed so that overvoting is possible, don't be surprised if a handleful of brazen, mendacious posters avail themselves of the chance to alter the outcome to their liking.

[CarryaBigStick]

I've always felt there was room for both, that science and religion will someday meet on common ground, and reconciled with it personally long ago.

Extremism on both sides of this argument is counter-productive.

I'll pass on this one.