Both sides above may be tending to take extreme views. However these extreme views are only
within their respective sides.
This is not something that I will back up but I did have an email exchange with someone expert in a specific area of dating. He will not publically become involved in the creationism debate. This is because he has recieved death threats.
I am sure this is the fault of a very small number of the YEC side however the most extreme of them are, indeed, fanatics and if you apply that word to them then I don't think you can use the same word to apply to Dawkins relative-within-his-own-camp extremism.
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