Bex a number of the conclusions in your "whale of a tale" post are rather spurious, for example the claim that whales were always aquatic and evolutionists, for their own nefarious reasons, decided to show otherwise. The responses to the fossil evidence you posted are clearly from a creationist. Can you tell me who it was and what book or website please, so I can look into it and find out how much of what they say is based on the facts.

Richard Dawkins . . . I don't like his ideas any more than I like those of creationists. But is he senile or otherwise mentally impaired? No. He's just spiritually bankrupt, which goes with the definition of being a dogmatic skeptical atheist. Please give me the details of how he was "defeated" by a creationist. Sounds like a piece of propaganda from a creationist website but I'd like to look into it.

I've said here before that creationists and atheists like Dawkins are two sides of the same coin in a way. Each ideology puts the nature of reality into neatly defined boundaries. For the skeptical atheist, you simply rule out everything that cannot be empirically proved through the 5 senses using science. The paranormal, spirituality, anything of that nature is unprovable and therefore a delusion. So you conveniently forget about it, and may even look down your nose at the "fools" who believe in what's called "woo-woo."

Creationists believe that something is so because it says so in the Bible. Anything else is a delusion, a lie, a hoax, no matter how much "evidence" is there for it. So you conveniently forget about it, and may even look down your nose at the "fools" who believe the grand science conspiracy and are going to hell for not believing literally in the Bible. Correct me if I'm wrong.

What there is little room for in either ideology is the admission that "we don't know." Not knowing can be uncomfortable and it can be frightening. It's certainly not a secure, reassuring position to be in. It also means considering all possibilities, even ones you might want to reject, and never being 100% certain about anything. What this does do is create an open mind that is willing to look objectively at evidence, explore, learn, and try to discover more about how the universe really works. It's hard to do this when you feel so sure of a paradigm that you are unwilling to acknowledge existing evidence, whether it be of the paranormal or of evolution.