slevesque writes:
I think it simply is that many creationist that come along are quickly gone because many posters here come to the table with a boatload of preconcieved notions about them.
Dogma tends to do that. Lets be honest, if they were well versed in original thinking they wouldn't be Creationists would they?
Most people are not sociopathic liars and prefer not to make claims generated purely from their imagination without any form of evidence whatsoever. With a few notable exceptions among those who frequent this board of course, knowingly peddling fiction as fact is distasteful. Instead people who are so far outside the advance of human knowledge are likely to be that way because they have been carefully indoctrinated with bullshit.
This bullshit is codified, ritualized, and habitually cemented as an attempt to remain unchanged and "pure". This is an essential ingredient because it if was open to change then it would of necessity been modified into something other than bullshit when exposed to scientific fact. The fact that it has remained crap for an extended period guarantees concerted efforts to hammer said turds into carefully prepared minds with as little modification as possible.
So yes slevesque, its quite reasonable to hold certain preconceived notions about Creationists in the same sense that it is reasonable to hold preconceived notions about the knowledge of Engineering graduates. Both were subject to the formal imprinting of certain sets of knowledge, and you would be a fool to ignore that.