Just to clarify some of my earlier statements, since Laura had asked about them..

It is my view that a forum moderator (on any type of forum) should feel free to express their opinions in any thread - it is, after all, their forum. That being said, whilst managing the forum itself a neutral view must be adopted. Especially when you have forum names like Creation and Evolution: What do You Think? A title like this suggests open mindedness and an interest in offering all sides to an argument. If you have a hard time accepting this, ask yourself how you would react if the situation were reverse (you enter a forum of the same name and only evolution threads are made and locked, posted there as advertisements designed to dominate one specific side of the argument and diminish all others).

When you post one-sided arguments and summarily lock them to prevent anyone from pointing out their potential fallicies, you're not a "Creation and Evolution" forum any longer. You're simply a Creation forum. Perhaps what really needs to take place here is a renaming of the forum so that many of the posters here don't get upset when things like this happen. It's a matter of fairness and communication. Right now the image we're being presented with is an unfairly ran forum which, initially, is designed to show all views - whether that is the intention of the moderator or not. If the forum name were changed (i.e, naming it simply Creation), it would not be an unfairly ran forum. The other alternative is to keep the name and treat it as such - that is, show both sides of the argument or, if you don't want to defend one side, at least permit others as audible a voice as your own.

An honest and open media (news channel/paper), for example, must always portray a neutral standpoint. That's not to say that the individual journalists and news reporters don't have their own points of view - most certainly they do - but not when serving information to the public. So too is it the same with forum moderators. Say anything and everything in any given thread, but maintain strict neutrality with the forum itself (i.e.., which threads get locked, censoring of some posters over others, etc.)

I don't think anything I've said here is wildly outrageous or unreasonable.