[Fester Chugabrew]

"That is almost exactly the thrust of what 'scientific heretics' were told. - Read much history, fester?"

You know, I don't read nearly as much history as I should, and that is why I tend to distrust bald statements from fellows who claim to know it well.

One small source I found on the subject reads as follows: "Although the Inquisition was created to combat the heretical Cathari and Waldenses, the Inquisition later extended it's activity to include witches, diviners, blasphemers, and other sacrilegious persons."

It appears to have been both a spiritual and intellectual abberation that grew out of the Catholic church, but I would hardly count this as indicative of religious people as a whole. Do you really think everyone who adheres to a creationist viewpoint is against scientific study or completely incapable of the same? If so, you would have to reject both Newton and Galileo as scientists, that latter of whom suffered under the Roman Inquisition.

"Did you imagine that you made a rebuttal to my post at #2457? - Or perhaps you just concede.

This remark does not exactly advance your cause in establishing evolution as the supremely reigning worldview among men. No. But it exacerbates a discussion that is otherwise worth conducting in a civil way.

[Aric2000]

Do you really think everyone who adheres to a creationist viewpoint is against scientific study or completely incapable of the same? If so, you would have to reject both Newton and Galileo as scientists, that latter of whom suffered under the Roman Inquisition.

Come on now Fester, let's get real. To say that ALL creationists do this, or ALL evolutionists do that is ridiculous and you know it.

G3K likes to say that we evo's are a bunch of communists, well, if we were, would we be on this board?

Let's get serious here, and stop with the silly rhetoric?

Of course NOT all creationists are a bunch of antiscience whackos, and most evolutionists are not a bunch of antireligious whackos either. SO come on, let's stop the BS and get to it, shall we?

[Doctor Stochastic]

It appears to have been both a spiritual and intellectual abberation that grew out of the Catholic church, but I would hardly count this as indicative of religious people as a whole...

Why do you consider it to be an aberration?

[tpaine]

Did you imagine that you made a rebuttal to my post at #2457? - Or perhaps you just concede.

"This remark does not exactly advance your cause in establishing evolution as the supremely reigning worldview among men. No. But it exacerbates a discussion that is otherwise worth conducting in a civil way." -fester-


Whatever. -- You didn't reply to 2457, and I asked why.

You seem to want to take offence rather than answer. -- That's fine too.