[Kelly_2000]

"I *do* wish we could have a science discussion that just talked about the science, but that has proven to be an unachievable goal here."

there seems to be too much emotional equity in most of the arguments here, this results in slanging matches. I had hoped for an enlightening scientific debate on this topic. so far we are going out on ID tangents

[Ichneumon]

["I *do* wish we could have a science discussion that just talked about the science, but that has proven to be an unachievable goal here."]

there seems to be too much emotional equity in most of the arguments here, this results in slanging matches. I had hoped for an enlightening scientific debate on this topic. so far we are going out on ID tangents

The science folks are usually perfectly happy just discussing the science, without getting off into any philosophical implications.

The "ID" folks are seldom content to do so, and seem to generally have a large chip on their shoulders in that regard.

Another reason for the high focus on ID recently is that the Dover ID/evolution trial has been big news for the past several weeks, and other aspects of the ID movement have been coming to a head in the last year or so. One can hope that once those die down (if they ever do, *sigh*), the ID tensions might go back into partial hibernation and we can discuss the straight science again.

Although even at the best of times, FreeRepublic has a lot of folks who constantly feel that science is some kind of attack on their religion, and never hesitate to tell us about it.