WOW! Anyone read all that? Honestly, anyone?
yes, and it took several hours to do so.
I have... And if you want to actually have an informed opinion on the subject before you spout off about it, you should too.
I did. I didn't follow all the links, but I did read the meat of the post. If more people did that, we'd have a whole lot less anti-evolutists running around.
I used to be on the anti-evolutist side of the argument a few years ago. I just felt that what I had been taught about the bible had to be true so it made me just ignore evidence. It didn't help that credible sounding creationists were writing books and lesson plans which provided "scientific" reasons why evolution was such a fraud. I still see those exact same "scientific objections" on these threads (the flood explains rock layers and fossils, piltdown man was a fraud so all pre-human fossils are, etc).
It also didn't help matters that most of the evolutionists acted like smug asses in their message board posts. Later I realized that they got the same tired "scientific proofs against evolution" posts everyday so in retrospect, I can understand their frustration. They were also told everyday by the anti-evolutionists that they were going to hell for their beliefs.
Anyway, if someone had put forth the evidence the way that Ichneumon has, I would have gotten out of the creationist cult a lot sooner. These threads are useful for exactly that reason - the anti-evolutionist champions may never open their eyes to reason, but hopefully a lot of lurkers will.