Yes. And was that you or one of the other mods who finally cleared up that EsotericLucidity business? That rebounded to my embarrassment. I pretty much swore I'd never go out on a limb over anyone else's banning again no matter what I thought I saw. OK, I squawked a little about JediGirl.
Why don't you do each other a favor, do us moderators a favor, do the forum a favor, and do yourselves a favor. Forget the past with regards to your threads. Let it go. Start fresh.
Actually, the Agreement of the Willing was supposedly going to do that. However, we need to keep trying, so I guess it's time to dust that thing off. Most of the people trying frantically to torpedo it are gone now, anyway.
Can there be a free forming debate possible on the topic? I am on the evo side, but if I genuinely believed that somebody was committing blasphemy against God by suggesting the Earth was older than 6,000 years, I probably would consider them to be one of Satan's minions.
I don't have a real answer, just an observation. I think the threads are necessarily going to be angry and contentious. Perhaps a time out for a personal attack no matter who does it would be a stop gap solution, but otherwise, it seems kind of intractable, even putting haggis and Lutefisk or McClintock/Arnold threads to shame.
Perhaps there could be a special function, form to click on and abide to, recognizing that the other posters are all human beings, and you will respect them as such or else should be in order.
The big thing is respect. IMHO many creationists think that evolutionists are Satan's little helpers. Many evolutionists think that the creationists are buck toothed inbred hillbillies. This is the crux of the problem. How do you debate civilly in such a situation?
No, you are still here. You were the most blatant breaker of the agreement in the less than 12 hours after it took effect. You published ALS's personal e-mail and in addition restarted the argument going after it had died down. You were the troll and every evo on that thread knew it. Nevertheless they would not say a single bad word about your behavior and instead attacked me for pointing out the truth. Your hypocrisy and that of your fellow evos is the problem.