kbertsche writes:
I don't believe your questions or Dr. Adequate's in the other thread are serious. Perhaps that's why he had such a poor response. Your question and thread title aren't baiting, but trolling.
Here are the stats on the 'poor response' so far by those who are/have been active in either thread.
Made or implied against rape under all circumstances -
Atheist and pro-science:
Coragyps
Message 117Parasomnium
Message 81Huntard
Message 108bluescat48
Message 106lyx2no
Message 104Rahvin
Message 103Theodoric
Message 101Straggler
Message 92Perdition
Message 95Modulous
Message 94Dr Adequate
Message 90
Christian and pro-science:
Michamus
Message 133Meldinoor
Message 120Bluejay
Message 115
Other/decline to state/don't know and pro-science:
Drosophilla
Message 127Anglagard
Message 118Percy
Message 96
Christian and anti-science (remember how interwoven physics, chemistry, geology and biology are? IMO those who don't and have made statements indicating an antagonistic attitude toward at least one and therefore all = anti-science):
holyfire23, evidently fundie
Message 3Peg, mostly fundie but also JW, so a bit different
Message 124
Heavily implied but no direct statement I can tag, still obviously against rape under all circumstances:
Taz, atheist, pro-science
Purpledawn, (I think she is a Christian considering the huge knowledge, although her belief system is so sophisticated {like Ringo's}, sometimes hard to tell), pro-science
hooah212002, unknown, pro-science
Refuse to answer up to now:
Mike the Wiz, fundie, anti-science
John 10:10, fundie, anti-science
kbertsche, unknown, unknown (see above comment)
If I have misrepresented anyone here, I deeply apologize, it is purely accidental, and I will correct ASAP after reading.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen