[Rebel_Ace]

"Let’s remember that you asked a question whether or not evo questioners should be raising religious questions on what is a political commentary site..."

What I was trying to ask (apparently with less clarity than I hoped for) whether it was worthwhile to post nearly the SAME THING OVER AND OVER again. If I had some obsession with Clinton's old cat "Socks", as mentioned in some earlier reply, and kept posting the same thing over and over about Socks dying, readers might legitimately question why I would do that. The might suggest I take my posts to a site devoted to pets, where the subject of a pet cat posted over and over would be the "norm". The specific example I cited was another Freeper from days long gone who did the same thing with Magnetic Levitating Trains. Worthy of discussion when public funding is considered, but a tad excessive when posted OVER AND OVER with essentially no new information or events.

"...I was argueing about how the politicians and certain members of the “chattering class” always misuse science and try to fashion social policies based on theories and discoveries that have been “tortured and twisted” to fit an anti-American or anti chrisitan agenda. That is where a lot of Christians show concern. It’s not so much the science, but where evil men will try to take the Science..."

Careful where you bandy about the

...“tortured and twisted” to fit... by evil men

generalization, as these threads have seen more than enough obvious and laughable "torturing and twisting to fit" particular beliefs held dear. When every geological formation that is jumbled becomes "evidence" for a world wide flood, when clearly stacked layers of ancient rock are simply passed off as "God Made Them Look Old", many YEC's need to look in the mirror with regard to "torturing and twisting to fit".

In closing, let me state that I greatly appreciate your polite and respectful replies, as a few others here could find a lesson in them. Thanks, and have a good rest of the day!

-RA

[mdmathis6]

“tortured and twisted” to fit... by evil men”

I had in mind the Stalins,Sangers,Lenins,Pol Pots, and a whole host of socialist western politicians that are intellectually enfeebling their nations so that their peoples grope blindly without vision having been readied for enslavement.

Governments who engineer the whole sale slaughter of undesirable people groups, I tend to call “evil”. Individuals who apply a pseudo scientific sophistry in support of the abortion and sterilization of undesired people groups, bastardizing true science, I tend to call evil! When science is twisted to support a leftist agenda in the name of the threats of global warming, I call the folks doing that evil, especially when they lead the less scientifically grounded astray! I hate the leftist/socialist politicization of science because it has leading our world into great evil.

I am a fan of pure science guided by personal honesty and integrity. I am a fan of the unsung heros, the scientists who realize they have spent a few years of time going down a blind alley, and admit it because even in failure they have contributed greatly to general knowledge.

The world of science has been co-opted in many areas as it has no restraining ethic other than the voluntary personal ethics of the practitioners. Thus we have the Hansen types(director of Nasa) who quite regularly call for political leftist change based on his twisted notions of global warming.

I am a Christian and a fan of science, but more importantly a fan of reason. Reason has limits as she enforces personal honesty but she can not help bridge epistomological gaps between knowledge and objects. Faith and hope ultimately bridge those gaps and as for one’s sense of meaning and direction in life, charity can provide instruction and ethical reinforcement!