Censorship
Criticism of young-earth creationism often starts with this and using the Scopes Trial as a prime example. When you try to censor a competing model, it shows fear that your paradigm is under attack. If you were really confident of your model, then you would allow the evidence to be brought forward and discussed. Science should be an open market place of ideas where the best ideas and models win because they have the best evidence, not because of censorship.
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Criticism of young-earth creationism often starts with this and using the Scopes Trial as a prime example.
Criticism is not the same thing as censorship. Surely you will agree with that.
The Scopes trial was about keeping evolution of out public schools. But the fact that Tennessee was trying to keep evolution out says nothing whatsoever about whether evolution is a valuable scientific theory. All is says is that the Tennessee Legislature didn't want it in schools, regardless of its accuracy or inaccuracy.
When you try to censor a competing model, it shows fear that your paradigm is under attack.
You keep saying that creationism is being censored. We keep pointing out to you that it's not being censored, it's just not getting into scientific publications because it's not scientific. Are you saying that a refusal to publish non-scientific ideas in science journals amounts to censorship? If so, I would refer you to
The Princess Bride. ("I do not think that word means what you think it means.")
If you were really confident of your model, then you would allow the evidence to be brought forward and discussed.
As I mentioned above, nobody is preventing creationists from bringing forward their ideas and discussing them. They are simply not getting into scientific publications because they are not science.
Science should be an open market place of ideas where the best ideas and models win because they have the best evidence, not because of censorship.
Science is open to anyone to bring forward evidence and theories and submit them for discussion. Creationists have no evidence or theories.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat
It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate
Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung