Why is the silence on the part of the moderators necessary? Some statement of policy would clear this up. Right now, all there is, is a stew of suspicions, created out of a creo broth.
It is puzzling. If science threads aren't welcome, then they should be deleted. It may be against the policy of the site to discuss ideas outside current events and politics. If that is the case, then it should be made obvious.
Another possibility, it that questioning religion is not welcome here, as this is a conservative site. If so, then the scientific threads could arguably be deleted. Or, pro-science posters and posts could be deleted.
What bugs me, is that posts and certain posters get deleted without explanation. A little sticky note in the thread is not too difficult, and the other moderated forums I participate on, have such things. Without explanation, the only evidence to the management policy is who is deleted. The deletions all tend to be evolution supporters. And, there are tinfoil hat wearing crackpots that post ridiculous things days after day without being deleted.
It does a disservice to this website to let the apparent policy continue. It is up to the management to run the site however they want, but to lower the level of discussion by creepy neo-communist tactics implies that none of us will be around much longer - voluntarily or otherwise.
Maybe someone else has an answer to why the silence is so deafening?
My guess is that Jim Robinson isn't aware of the damage that one of his trusted moderators is doing. I haven't sent JR any communications about it, and I don't think anyone else has either. Other than pinging him as an additional addressee on some of the posts, which he hasn't the time to digest, how is he supposed to know what's going on? As long as the evolution side behaves like grownups and doesn't go whining to the management, the rogue moderator has a free hand to behave like a child. So until I have evidence that this conduct is truly Jim Robinson's policy, and I doubt that it is, I'll continue to think well of this place.
Could it be these Threads are not deleted because they do debate this on going "current event" argument of Creation vs. Evolution. Oh, and since the gov't schools force the teaching of the THEORY of evolution as fact and creationist want at least, their side presented, leads to a hearty "political" discussion.