The issue comes when there is significant disproof of a concept, and yet its proponents insist on being given "fair treatment".
Okay. Your response started out fine, but then you digressed into electrosensitivity. This is not the topic of the museum. I think that many creationists are offering alternative explanations for existing phenomena that have not been incontrovertibly proven one way or another.
I'll accept your assertion that appeal to authority is not part of the scientific method, I was simply pointing out that it's unreasonable to label all creationists as ignorant, unscientific, Taliban-loving, Neanderthals. We are in good historical company.
I'm amazed at the vitriol and hatred coming from many./ers who have probably never had their preconceived notions of the origins of life challenged in any substantive way. I thought the whole idea of online discussion forums was to present many views on an issue and consider them all thoughtfully. I guess I'm being optimistic to assume that today's closed scientific community has the patience and fairness required to consider opposing views on complicated and far from cut and dried issues.
Just try to take a view countering the dominate culture on many open scientific issues today and watch the screamers and shouters substitute arrogant one-liners for reasoned debate.
Have any of you gentle readers ever heard of such distinguished SCIENTISTS as Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler? These men were not ignorant and uninformed and above all they were certainly no anti-scientific, but they believed that God created the world.
Please stop the name calling and decrying the end of civilization as we know it. Take a breath. Open your minds. And think.
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Okay. Your response started out fine, but then you digressed into electrosensitivity. This is not the topic of the museum. I think that many creationists are offering alternative explanations for existing phenomena that have not been incontrovertibly proven one way or another.
I'll accept your assertion that appeal to authority is not part of the scientific method, I was simply pointing out that it's unreasonable to label all creationists as ignorant, unscientific, Taliban-loving, Neanderthals. We are in good historical company.
Wow,
./ers who have probably never had their preconceived notions of the origins of life challenged in any substantive way. I thought the whole idea of online discussion forums was to present many views on an issue and consider them all thoughtfully. I guess I'm being optimistic to assume that today's closed scientific community has the patience and fairness required to consider opposing views on complicated and far from cut and dried issues.
I'm amazed at the vitriol and hatred coming from many
Just try to take a view countering the dominate culture on many open scientific issues today and watch the screamers and shouters substitute arrogant one-liners for reasoned debate.
Have any of you gentle readers ever heard of such distinguished SCIENTISTS as Sir Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Johannes Kepler? These men were not ignorant and uninformed and above all they were certainly no anti-scientific, but they believed that God created the world.
Please stop the name calling and decrying the end of civilization as we know it. Take a breath. Open your minds. And think.