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The difference between Betty Boop and Alamo-Girl is that they allow for different viewpoints amongst Christians, rather than damning those who disagree over interpretational issues. I have interacted with both many, many times, and I have never once been treated by either like I’m the enemy. You and DallasMike are a whole different breed of “Christian.” And until you tone down your condemnatory rhetoric, you can bet I will be ready to great you with ALL the respect you deserve.

No, we're scientists who have had to clean up after the mess that you've made.

Am I a little rough on this issue? Yes. Read Galatians, the books to the Corinthians. Paul was extremely blunt. Read the Gospels, Jesus was no shrinking violet.

I've seen what the Young-Earth Creationist movement has done. I have to work doubly hard spreading the Gospel to people who think that every Christian is living in the Dark Ages. I've had to help restore faith to people who have been duped by the movement you're so proud of.

==No, we’re scientists who have had to clean up after the mess that you’ve made.

You a scientist? After all the stupid mistakes you have made! Just goes to show that a certain amount of incompetents find their way into every field. And just like you, they all seem to gravitate to non-Reasons to believe.

==Am I a little rough on this issue? Yes. Read Galatians, the books to the Corinthians. Paul was extremely blunt. Read the Gospels, Jesus was no shrinking violet.

Exactly. As Augustine might say, bring it on Mr. “Pagan.”

==I’ve had to help restore faith to people who have been duped by the movement you’re so proud of

Well seeing how you have proven yourself to be both ignorant and dishonest...You probably have no idea the damage that you and the fidgety-Ross are doing to the cause of Christianity (or do you?).

Er, I really don’t wish to get into the middle of the dispute – but I would like to point out that both sides seem to be deeply concerned for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are troubled by what they perceive are differences between Scripture and what they understand about the physical world.

At the root, you agree on Christ and you agree on brotherly love - the truly important things.

Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. – I Cor 12:13

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. - Matt 22:37-40

Perhaps your apparently irreconcilable differences are also part of God’s will?

For instance, when Paul and Barnabas split up over their irreconcilable differences and went their separate ways, the Gospel spread further and faster. – Acts 15:39-41

Or to put it another way, even though you cannot speak with the same voice, perhaps there are some that the one of you could reach that the other could not?