First off, I ask that when posting. Read your post before you hit the submit button. Ask yourself these things.
1) Did I over react to what someone else said?
2) Will what I say make the other person mad?
3) As a Christian, am I reacting in a way that is pleasing to God. And a good representation of Christ?
4) As a evolutionist (a person who believes in evolution theory), are my answers scientific, or are they personal attacks on what I choose not to believe? Which by the way, does nothing to prove anything that deals with science.
I find that number 1 is very reasonable.
Number 2 can be difficult to judge, since some of the contentions on the evolutionists side will directly oppose the literalist interpretation of the Bible (Billions of years, for example) and could incite anger simply by being expressed and supported by the current scientific evidence. Is the judgement on a particular post going to be based on the reaction of the person responded to by the post, or is there some particular criteria that you will use?
When taking number 3 and number 4 together, it seems that you are saying that the Christian posters are not required to provide scientific answers. If this is so...why are Christians not held to the standards of evidence that the evolutionists are?
I do like the fact that you plan on holding the Christians to the standards of being good representatives of Christ. Now we will see what you believe a good representative of Christ should and should not do.
Now I realize that people do get over heated while debating. All I ask is that if your post is going to stir up trouble, then wait on posting it until you cool down. Posting mad does nothing for either side.
Rules will be coming later. If you have questions you can ask them while this thread is open for them. I know the change here will be for the better.
I guess that depends on the rules and the stringency in which they are enforced.
