"That is made clear every day on FR, where challengers to evolution cannot even correctly state the theory they oppose, and hve little knowledge of the content or history of biology."
Your post could have gone on without this jab.
I truly resent being called ignorant. Especially in response to my post in an otherwise kind response.
I have no idea what your state of knowledge is, but I have several years experience viewing the state of argument.
I stand by my claim. Most posters who oppose evolution have no knowledge of the history of science. The are unaware that the ID argument is several hundred years old and was the default position of science for most of the 19th century. It was specifically what Darwin was arguing about.
Most evolution posters are unaware that for 80 years after Darwin published, most biologists accepted that evolution had happened, but opposed Darwin on natural selection. The arguments made during those 80 years are identical to arguments being made today.
Most anti-evolution posters are unaware that these alternate theories were hotly debated by mainstream science until as recently as the 1980s. They were thoroughly investigated, and remnants of them are still being investigated by mainstream science.
Most anti-evolution posters seem to believe there is a conspiracy to cover up areas of biology where things are unknown, and to put certain lines of investigation off limits. But it is mainstream biology that has discovered these areas of uncertainty, and it is mainstream biology that investigates them.
So if you wish to be off the list for my unkind remarks, be careful to argue against real science and not some cartoon version.