The Darwin Central crowd have apparently stormed off of FR in a huff. They may be back, but clearly they were frustrated that their agenda wasn't making much headway here.
No one stormed off in a huff. However, the loss of so many folks with scientific knowledge and training from FR is appalling.
PhDs in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Math, Astrophysics, Computer Science, etc.
Huge loss to FR.
It took awhile, but they finally figured out they were wasting their time.
They may be back, but clearly they were frustrated that their agenda wasn't making much headway here.
True Believers never allow facts or logic to penetrate their brain. Whether you want to believe that the "Darwinists" are the True Believers, or the "Christians" are the True Believers is irrelevant. Both are equally immune to reason.
Actually a few of us are still here. Many gave up in disgust. I'm an archaeologist, so I have lots of patience.
They may be back, but clearly they were frustrated that their agenda wasn't making much headway here.
Agenda? You mean science?
'Twas more to it than that.
A couple of home pages were deleted--if my hazy memory serves me right, Jim Robinson did it himself.
There was a p*ssing match between Jim Rob and some of the evolutionists, because JR asserted that in many ways (particularly in the schools; or in the hands of folks such as Dawkins) evolution was being used as a trojan horse to undermine Christian faith and -- indirectly -- our nation's heritage and freedoms.
Many of the evos claimed that they were interested primarily as a scientific endeavor, and actually shared JR's politics on the whole. But they did not want to be party to making it easy for folks like John Kerry or Al Gore to take cheap intellectual shots at the conservative movement as a whole.
The participants on both sides ran the gamut (without naming names). There were trolls and baiters on both sides of the dispute, as well as noble and principled people who tried to keep things in evenhanded, respectful terms. But over time they came to be in the minority. In addition, many of the crevo threads turned into mudslinging contests
par excellence.
I liked to post occasional Calvin and Hobbes cartoons to relieve the tension...
Long-winded mode off.
Cheers!