Fross
Posts: 71
Joined: Mar. 2006
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growing up in a southern town, going to a S. Baptist church and private school, I had my share of creationist teachings. Luckily my father, while very religious, majored in anthropology and biology and was public school biology teacher. I grew up with evolution being as much a part of reality as the theory of gravity and I always thought of the creationism stuff as the extremist views that come with any religion. (even in a S. Baptist church you have your moderates who snicker at the home schoolers) Even at the young age of 10, I was sometimes annoyed at how bad the creationist arguments were. At that time, most of them were young earthers, so it was REALLY bad.
When I got to college and had access to the internet, I ran into someone on a science site that was using all the same YEC arguments I heard as a kid. We debated over email for years until we realized we were going in circles and we eventually stopped communicating, but I still posted on talk.origins and a few other evo/creation debate forums. (i think one was carm.org??) A link on talk.origins led me to the Pandasthumb and they kept referencing Uncommondescent and there seemed to be this feud between the two sites. I goto PT for some great news tidbits and to get the latest news on the failings of the ID movement. I goto UD for curiosity, amusement and at one time I had this naive hope that they want to pursue ID in a scientific manner. Since the Dover defeat, they've revealed themselves for what they truly are and that hope is no more.
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