Faith's Participation in EvC

AdminOmni writes:After some reflection, I feel there are some things I take for granted that I should make explicit.This is the best forum on the web, bar none. I participated in a half dozen forums before coming across EvC, and now I focus whatever time and energy I have for on-line discussion here, though injuries, surgeries, illnesses and employment issues have lately much interfered. The founding conception, the format, moderation, participants--all world class.I recall exclaiming when I found EvC via a Google search (while researching an obscure point of evolutionary theory)--"Look at all these smart people!" I felt like a kid in a candy store: even the trolls were betterThere are folks here who are smarter than me. There are professional scientists whose training and rigor make my life-long lay interest seem a paltry thing. There are better writers. I couldn't be more pleased.But I can only speak my own mind and not anyone else's. That's the only way I know that is both honest and likely to further my own understanding by inviting challenges, agreements, amendments.You have built a fine house, Percy, and I thank you for it. It is a better house than I would have built, and it may well be that your inclinations about renovating it are equally as superior to my reservations. Still, when I look around, it doesn't look broken, and I cannot pretend that it does, however much I admire your skill and this monument to it.The best I can offer EvC is my honest opinion. That's also the best I can offer my friends. I fear I let the heat of my honesty bake out too much of the friendship in my posts on this issue, and I hope you'll let me leaven them with it now. EvC will remain an essential community for me as long as it stands, and I certainly have no interest in any schismatic alternatives.Thanks again, Percy.

I have to say, I find it Quite vulgar when a thread like this opens, discussing someone as if they're not there when they're actually 'in the room'

but she holds to her guns and i salute her

and neither are they erudite in theology in the same magnitude as you.

I think the biggest issue there is that Faith has the third highest post count on the board.

That was already the case in the private forum, discussing me as if I were an insect specimen pinned to a display, and it's been the case on other occasions at EvC. So I have no problem with making it completely public where everyone can have an opinion.

I find nothing admirable in vigorously maintaining a position without well reasoned convictions.

Or nothing praiseworthy in not expressing a certain measure of doubt, commensurate with the weakness of the available evidence.

On the other hand, being able to modify or even completely change your position, after careful evaluating new evidence is commendable.

Concerning Faith, I have not been here long and consequently do not have a strong opinion. Like others here I have recently had suspicions of her being a troll.

Your post are not constructive, says one. But I have learned a lot from looking up things you and your opponents have brought up in discussion. I call that constructive.

You post count is too high, says another. Well, your count may be high, but your posting rate, i.e. the average number of posts per day since registering - a much more interesting statistic in my opinion - is just below that of your accuser, Schrafinator.