Then perhaps you should reconsider your statement that bvw's assertion is "not unjust".
Just in case you may be confused in the matter, I don't regard any of you gentlemen as swine or any other type of animal. About as close as I can come personally to characterizing another person around here as any type of animal would be to say that, IMHO, WildTurkey's screen name is apt.
As to whether bvw's assertion was just or unjust, I guess that would depend on the person he was describing. Notwithstanding, I would note that to act like a swine doesn't necessarily make one a swine. Of course, you caught the Biblical reference in that phrase....
I am probably not alone in noticing that there are some very rude people who participate on these threads, and some of them seem to wear their rudeness like some kind of badge of honor. The criticism goes out to individuals on both "sides" of the debate here. FWIW
While I'm letting my hair down, may I note that at your personal behest, and that of another FReeper, I actually undertook to write a short, very general piece addressed to our resident creationists on why the second law doesn't violate evolution, and why evolution is not inconsistent with the Holy Scriptures. I didn't hear a word back from any of my Christian friends; but I was mercilessly flamed by some of your own colleagues.
And then you write to me, and say you lose respect for me when another FReeper complains to me of having received like treatment, and I don't rebuke him for it -- hullo!!!! What's going on here?
It appears there's a double standard at work here, Ichneumon. I don't exactly see you leaping into the fray to defend me or bvw, et al., against such abuse from your cadre of respondents.
Let's all just try to "grow up" and soldier on, O.K.?