[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the heads up, RWP! DittoJed2 is not among those of us who signed on to the agreement of the willing and thus I suggest ignoring such lines of argument altogether.

DittoJed2, those of us who are among the willing agree that we cannot read one another's minds and thus will not attribute beliefs and motives. More specifically, we agree not to accuse someone of being a Marxist, a Nazi, etc. because they believe in evolution.

The accusation leads to flame wars - always. The counter argument against the Church likewise leads to flame wars - always, and in-fighting as science threads become doctrinal show-downs between denominations, particularly Catholics v. Protestants. To that end, we also agree that we will never demand another Freeper disavow a belief or swear to a belief he does not hold.

Therefore, to keep the peace on science threads, we eschew all such arguments. I strongly recommend to all on this thread not to engage in any such discussion!

[DittoJed2]

Alamo, show me where I accused a single person of any of these things. As a historian, I can point to Nazism as having sprung in part from Darwinian philosophy. I have been careful not to say that these people are Nazi's or the like. I'm drawing out implications of what a Darwinian worldview brings out and it should be fair game if I am able to back it up with facts. I accused nobody here of being a Nazi.

As for the Protestant/Catholic thing, I've also been careful to try to stay away from it too. I had specific links and issues presented to me, which I addressed. If you look at the record, you will see this is correct. But I do have a Masters in History as well, and when someone is going to distort the record about Church history, I'm going to defend it.