Glen Davidson
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From UD:
| Quote | But, in the end, the approach I see in evolutionary biology (some of which you have demonstrated in this thread) is damaging, most of all to theory of evolution itself.
Abuses of the scientific process contribute to increased skepticism – it raises the guard of those who are not informed and see only the human behaviors surrounding the science. And the truth is those behaviors don’t influence whether the science is ‘true’ or not.
I am still open to the theory of evolution. I still want to learn more and follow the evidence where it leads. But I admit that I am particularly cautious as I research it because of the approach of evolutionists in championing their theory. |
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Uh, no, you are not open to the theory of evolution, you are open to well-poisoning lies and disgusting defamatory attacks against those who tell you the truth.
But that has always been the modus operandi of creationist liars, to poison the well, then to attack those who call such well-poisoning scurrilous and wrong as "bigots" who simply can't answer the bigoted slanders and libels cast at them.
We can neither pretend that creationists (eta--I mean the pushers mainly, not so much the rank and file dupes) are anything but pseudoscientific trolls using underhanded tactics, nor can we win over poisoned minds by doing so--in fact this often "confirms" the "truth" of the charges to the ignorant and delusional. This is a catch-22 which they can always exploit.
It is those in the middle ground that give any real hope to convincing those to whom "truth" simply is that scientists conspire to attack, or at least to nullify, their religious beliefs. While I think that such "middle grounders" can readily have their intellectual bases (or, "intellectual bases") questioned, the reality is that actually gunning at them, as some like to do, only closes the door to those who simply cannot be persuaded by having everything they believe in denied simultaneously.
Glen Davidson
edited to make url work--the preview seems to have screwed it up
edited again--I think it was the length of url that screwed it up, in fact
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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of coincidence---ID philosophy
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