General Discussion Of Moderation Procedures (aka 'The Whine List')

This is a debating site, and rather a good one too. And one of the reasons that it is so good, is that when it comes to debating scientific matters, it does a good job of holding the participants to a reasonably rigorous sticking to the scientific method. In short, participants are expected to point to evidence on the science threads.I know you've hand-waved and denied that evidence has been provided that is contrary to your beliefs, but hand-waving and baseless denial doesn't cut the mustard, either here or in any other serious context. Evidence has been presented on the relevant threads - not mathematical proofs, but very strongly persuasive in the context of the theories and their predictions - and you simply pretend that it is suspect, without the slightest grounds for thinking so.And when you are asked to provide evidence for your beliefs, you seek to assert, again and again, and without the slightest justification, that no evidence has been provided by your opponents.Ask yourself this - if you are really interested in which way the fence sitters will jump, do you want to be (a) one of the people who presents example after example of evidence; or (b) one of the people who simply hand-waves that evidence away, and never produces any of their own.I have a shrewd idea who most people find more persuasive.

For my 5 cents, I really don't believe that Faith, in and of herself, is a bad person. I disagree vehemently with her on pretty much every topic we discuss here, but I think she is a fairly typical example of your standard human being - not evil, no saint, just normal.What is truly depressing is what the right wing echo chamber can do to standard human beings, to make them believe what Faith writes.