What type of skeptic are you?

You make a very good point here. (though how you got around to it seems to have sparked an entirely different debate.) I think our classification as a number 1 or 2 skeptic depends entirely on the topic being discussed. If you are passionate about one theory, you may become skeptic number 2, but on all other topics and ideas you may be number 1. When it comes to creo/evo debates, both sides have become so engrained to dismiss the other that it is much easier to find number 2 here, especially considering everyone here is passionate enough about it to continue posting here as long as some of you have.

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"Of course...we all create god in our own image" - Willard Decker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

I Think the biggest problem here is the unfortunate example Mike chose. He was merely trying to illustrate (I believe), that there may be a few small cases that would seem to show creationism over evolution, but that evolutionists would not admit it, even if it were expressly stated that these few things alone would not be near enough to disprove evolution, or even to bring creationism into more mainstream consideration. The same could be said, and has been said repeatedly, of the the creationists. I think all Mike was trying to say is that everyone at some point will "fall in love" with an idea and will ignore, try to refute, or bend in circles to make fit with their ideas, any evidence that could be used as well or better on the other side.

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"Of course...we all create god in our own image" - Willard Decker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

YOu could even say our arguments evolve.

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"Of course...we all create god in our own image" - Willard Decker, Star Trek: The Motion Picture