Buzsaw writes:
Far worse than ignorant is liar, unless one can, in the message, absolutely cite documentation that a deliberate lie has been posted. Liar is the most mean-spirited and judgmental attack towards a member that anyone can post. Two or three members resort to this attack with impunity.
Most of the meanspirited ****ing asterisks and lie charges are directed at minority creationist members by the few who apply them .
I understand how this hurts you. Critics would say that a man who has been exposed to as much information gleaned by the collective intelligence of humanity would be a fool to ignore such progress. The reason that we lie, according to them, is that we want reality to be a certain way and ignore the evidence that suggests that our worldview is not only flawed logically, but is a creation of our own making.
A Biblical Creationist, for example, would want to believe that God was the center of reality. They would very much want to be assured that what they were taught was true. You yourself used to call it an "alternative" belief system and asserted that science and evolutionary thought were themselves based on belief as much as your own beliefs were.
To become better critical thinkers, you or I would have to suspend our beliefs enough to get a taste of the methodology used by critical thinking to arrive at obvious secular conclusions. You chose to try and incorporate your Biblical beliefs "based on a lifetime of study" to support an alternative view of science. I, on the other hand, chose to accept that my beliefs were illogical, yet still have so far not thrown them away. A critic may say that I was willfully deceiving myself by clinging to what I
wanted to be true.
I would agree except to say that neither of us really knows whether any external forces are in fact manipulating human deception.