Arrogant, probably. I'm right, you're wrong, and it would be dishonest of me to imply, even as a social nicety, that I have the slightest reservation about that. Uncivilized, no. Nothing in civilization requires us to be nice to barbarians. I take a Victorian attitude; we should be compassionate to the peaceful savage, but when they're hammering at the gates, civilization gets out the boiling pitch (or the Gatling gun, to keep the metaphor straight)
Creationism is an atavistic holdover from a less-enlightened age of history, and when it attempts to use political power to regain what it has lost by the progress of the human intellect, the gloves come off.
Arrogant, probably. I'm right, you're wrong, and it would be dishonest of me to imply, even as a social nicety, that I have the slightest reservation about that. Uncivilized, no. Nothing in civilization requires us to be nice to barbarians. I take a Victorian attitude; we should be compassionate to the peaceful savage, but when they're hammering at the gates, civilization gets out the boiling pitch (or the Gatling gun, to keep the metaphor straight)
Creationism is an atavistic holdover from a less-enlightened age of history, and when it attempts to use political power to regain what it has lost by the progress of the human intellect, the gloves come off.
I am repeating your entire post so that all can see what you really are. It should be noted in the above that the great professor (well known at home at dinner time) does not give a single fact in support of his position but instead keeps on with insults, smears and grandiose pronouncements.
As I have said before, I will say it again, an intelligent person which has the facts does not have to lower himself to smears and insults. An intelligent person that has the facts does not need to blow himself up in the eyes of others. His words, his statements will give more than sufficient proof of his worth. Your words above give no such proof, they prove the opposite.