Creationists are coming to town

Welcome to the community Kodiak.May I offer a few bits of advice? Your post could use a few more paragraphs. Not just the extra line breaks but also grouping your thoughts. Then you might consider going to topics that are already open to discuss some of what you have mentioned.Now for a specific issue you say: This has also been discussed elsewhere but you might note that a significant fraction of all practising scientists (about 40%) are believers. That fraction already accepts the existance of a Creator and just under 100% of practising scientists accept the theory of evolution, physics and geology. There is clearly no threat at all to their world view.For the rest, it might surprise you that the existance or not of a Creator isn't threatening in anyway. It isn't any kind of issue.[This message has been edited by NosyNed, 04-13-2004]

There may well be a few who are threatened. I would be very surprised if this has anything to do with being an "evolutionist" (whatever that is).In my limited experience the atheists who sound most "threatened" (not a word I would use) fall into a couple of camps. There are those who were, in some way, religious at some point and had some very bad experiences from it. They react rather stongly in the other direction.The other group may be best exemplified by Dawkins. They are simply fed up with the nonsense promulgated in the name of religion. They too might be described as over-reacting but that is in the eye of the beholder. They are not 'theatened' by God. They feel that there is real danger to irrational ignorance. With that I agree. Fortunately, in most of the world, that sort of thing is in a laughable minority. (The USA, of course, has a significant problem to deal with )I am honestly completely unaware of anyone who is agnostic or atheist and feels threatened by the idea of a God. Are you concerned about Zeus smitting you with a bolt of lightening? To say that someone who doesn't have any belief acts out of any idea of a threat is just as silly.