[DannyTN]

"Look on the bright side - back in the good old days, there's quite a few people on this thread that would have had you burned at the stake for heresy. "

Burning at the stake was witchcraft wasn't it. I don't remember what the Roman Catholics did to those they considered heretics but I agree it wasn't pretty regardless. But both of those predated Darwin.

Are there really any examples of Christians persecuting evolutionists except by harsh words? Oh and Orion's unfortunate High School experience, which on the behalf of all Christians I hereby apologize for and acknowledge as being the wrong way to handle that.

[orionblamblam]

> Are there really any examples of Christians persecuting evolutionists except by harsh words?

Scopes springs to mind. And of course, daily examples throughout schools and families world-wide. In Lakewood, CO, in about 1998, there was an attempt to get the school board to force teachers in science classes to also teach religion, on pain of termination; this, however, failed to pass. Such laws as this still exist and continue to pop up here and there.

[mgstarr]

I was speaking about heretics in general though and not specifically evolutionists. Burning at the stake was the ultimate penalty for an unrecanted heresy during the first Inquisition in 1233, though it was uncommon.

Cheers!