Ground Rules

My private hypothesis, with no evidence, is that the strength of American conservatism is related to this strong puritan heritage. We simply don't have the same thing over here in the UK.Re ground rules, the possibility of error is assumed among scientists, but it is not assumed by non-scientists and they tend to interpret scientific statements as definitely true('scientifically proven'). So I think when debating with non-scientists this assumption needs to be made explicit.In fact in my experience, some YECs get really annoyed when I tell them that science is not able to prove its theories are true. Edited by Richard Townsend, : No reason given.Edited by Richard Townsend, : No reason given.

You are talking about evidence for a world view, versus evidence of things in ordinary life. We don't go round examining the evidence for things in everyday life in the same way as we need to critically examine evidence for a world view. Nobody does that, nor should we expect people to. What has your point got to do with the world view question? Nothing at all.Your behaviour in respect of Onifre is highly offensive and this weakens your credibility even further. Be ashamed.