[grey_whiskers]

You might enjoy Darwin Central.

Many ex-Freepers there (and a disproportionate share of scientists, who have left FR, after various and sundry misadventures with Jim Robinson: he apparently without warning repeatedly removed the home page of a couple of them, which said homepage had a huge and authoritative list of pro-evolution links. Influential players there include, but are not limited to Patrick Henry (whose page was removed), Ichnuemon (a veritable treasure trove of detailed info on Evolutionary theory), RadioAstronomer (all around great guy), RightWingProfessor (real-life Harvard PhD in the hard sciences and a real professor at a legitimate University), and a host of others.)

They too, fear the left's attempted calumny that all conservatives are anti-scientific, and seek to uphold the standards that "We conservatives can be good intellectuals too, and we don't need the crutch of belief in God; though we magnanimously allow it to those weaker conservatives who can't get along without it, as long as they're not TOO loud, uncouth, or embarrassing."

(Exaggeration of their opinion for dramatic effect...and not all are atheists. But it *DOES* tend to be more scientifically focused, and generally more libertarian and less "conservative" than here.)

Cheers!

[Notary Sojac]

though we magnanimously allow it to those weaker conservatives who can't get along without it

Thank you for the suggestion, although I'm uncomfortable with the tone of the comment above and I would not go that far.

Here's a post I made to the American Spectator webpage, in response to an article titled "Can Civilization Survive Without God". It sums up many posts I've made to FR over the years.

I think it's safe to say that "civilization cannot survive without people who -believe- in God".

It's beyond questioning that the Western statesmen whose outlook was infused with the Judaeo-Christian worldview have been better stewards of liberty, even for unbelievers, than the criminal heads of state who rejected that worldview.

However, as one of those unbelievers, I separate the questions of "is Christianity beneficial?" from "is Christianity true?" and answer them differently.

[Logic n' Reason]

Thanks for the “tip”; I’ll check it out!