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To: Oberon
what I am, however, is a layman with no vested interest in either direction.

I've tried to explain myself in these terms in the past to no avail. To the zealots on Darwin's ping list, if you are not fully persuaded that mollusks are in your family tree, you are initially branded as ignorant.

For the ignorant, they recommend reading basic bio books and talk origins articles. If you have a specific question and the article they reference does not actually address the specific question or is otherwise unpersuasive to you then you move into bucket #2, you are duped.

For the duped, the good ping-doctors of Darwinian zealotry assume you are under the sway of evil creationist liars. The prescription for such is to insist that your question is nothing but the rehashed tripe of creationist liars dating all the back to the 19th century (nothing new here). They loudly pronounce the proven idiocy of known creationists and try to get you to denounce them as well. If you fail to repent and recant then you are then proven to be evil because you are siding with the lie.

Once branded as evil, they know you lie, so they tell you what you really believe and scourge and mock you and spit upon you for the sins they know you commit even though you haven't done so on a particular thread.

Their closed system requires that there is no such thing as honest intelligent scientific debate about the adequacy of mainstream evolutionary theory. If there were such thing as an honest scientific debate about whether the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis is true, it would belong in schools as science. This they cannot abide.

Of course not all are zealots but there is a substantial population of this particular species.

348 posted on 02/16/2005 6:58:19 AM PST by Rippin
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To: Rippin
Of course not all are zealots but there is a substantial population of this particular species.

I have observed this behavior among zealots. My primary difficulty is in remembering which side is which.

349 posted on 02/16/2005 7:07:47 AM PST by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Rippin

"If there were such thing as an honest scientific debate about whether the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis is true, it would belong in schools as science."

What the heck are you talking about?

Evolution is the foundation for all biology. It has withstood 150 years of investigation by legitimate scientists and about the same from loonies who have a cultish religious view.

What doesn't belong in science classes is nonsense promoted by the fundamentalist sects.


354 posted on 02/16/2005 7:27:35 AM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: Rippin

No chip on your shoulder, no sir.


361 posted on 02/16/2005 10:33:52 AM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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