[steve-b]

That said, the amount of ridicule and personal attack one must endure to broach the slightest criticism of the ToE matches anything from the Calvinist versus Catholic religious threads.

That is the natural result of creationist politicization of the matter. The same effect comes up in (for example) discussions of election security, which inevitably lead to charges (from liberals) that it's all a scheme to disenfranchise people or (from conservatives) to to even broach the subject provides aid and comfort to the conspiracy mongers who say Bush stole the election.

[Antoninus]

That is the natural result of creationist politicization of the matter.

Riiiiight. And there's no politics involved on the other side at all, right? They're as pure as the wind-driven snow...

I may be an evolutionist, but I'm not that stupid.