wmscott writes:
There are two very long threads on this board on "Solving the Mystery of the biblical Flood", I suggest that you look them over to answer the questions you have. I don't have the time to educate you on the many basic points that you seem to need instruction on.
EvC Forum is a discussion board, with the emphasis on discussion. While members are encouraged to provide references that support or augment their arguments, the actual arguments and relevant information should be provided in the discussion thread. This applies even when the exact same arguments and information have been provided in other threads, and especially when those other threads are old and hundreds of messages long. In particular, members are not required or asked to read any thread other than the one their participating in.
Naturally this has to be moderated with common sense. There will be times when it makes sense to simply refer someone to a message in another thread (but not to an entire thread, unless it is very short). And there will be times when even though the information is present in the current thread, just telling someone to "read the thread" isn't really practical when the thread is hundreds of messages long, and so the specific message should be called out or the same information provided again in a new message.
We approach discussion this way because when a member takes the position that other threads or other material should be read before another member can participate in the current thread, it is usually an evasive technique.
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