Hello Pwcca, thought I would come back to this point you made in passing:
This isn't a war and, at least as far as I can tell judging by the title of this forum, this isn't a "Creationism is Right and Evolution is Wrong" discussion board. Rather, it's a "What do you think" debate. Everyone who contributes (particularly those who do so in a constructive and polite manner) is "doing something worthwhile".
There are those that do think it is a war, or course part of the problem comes from redefining various conflicts as "war" when they don't involve armed combat between nations, but use a weakened, watered down, diluted secondary definition of war, as in "culture war" ... and certainly the attacks on education by the fundamentalists are part of a
cultural war they are waging.
CTD message #256071
But it is a war.
We are indeed at war, and our enemy is the one who blinds people's eyes and whispers lies in their ears.
Bex message #256077
Here here CTD. We are indeed at War.
Nor would I be surprised to see others climbing onto the bandwagon.
Yes indeed it is a war, it is a war waged by ignorance against reality. SoSick blamed the teaching of evolution for the Columbine school shooting in one of the first threads I participated in on this forum, although she could not explain a single step of the logic that lead her to that conclusion.
CTD claims there is a vast world wide conspiracy to "change history" and includes evolution in part of that conspiracy, and again can't seem to explain the logical steps that lead to this conclusion.
LinearAq in message #256135
You believe we are at war. I suppose that justifies the tactics used by CTD....avoidance of answering the questions put before him.
Well of course there is the problem that when you wage war on reality, then reality is not likely to support your position, and evidence becomes rather problematical unless you ignore it.
Of course this is like being in an axe fight without an axe, and thinking that the best defense is to claim that axes don't exist. In this regard they are rather lucky that it is not a real war, and it becomes rather amusing to watch the mental acrobatics used to avoid reality.
Enjoy.
