Notice
Only Zhimbo, Joralex and moderators are permitted to post to this thread. Posts from anyone else will be deleted without saving or explanation. Moderators should immediately delete extraneous posts when encountered. Zhimbo and Joralex should ignore any extraneous posts they find that haven't yet been deleted.
This debate has its roots in the
Evolution of the eye? The myth goes on... thread where discussion on this topic began, and in the
Existence of God thread where agreement to formal debate was reached.
Moderators for the Debate
I have had no Creationist volunteers, and so I am the sole moderator. If any qualified Creationist volunteers to help moderate after the debate begins I will add him at that point. Moderator list:
Percy (Member ID: Percipient)
Comments about the Debate
A parallel thread has been started in the
Evolution forum titled
Eye Evolution: Comments about the Great Debate. All comments, suggestions, feedback, etc, about the debate by non-participants should be made to that thread.
Format of the Debate
The debaters will alternate posts, but moderators will respond with comments and scoring after each post by a debater. This means that debaters should wait until the moderators have responded before posting their response. The moderator posts should prove very helpful to debaters by indicating where effort should be placed.
By agreement reached in the
Existence of God thread, Zhimbo will go first after November 17, 2003.
Rules of Debate
The
Forum Guidelines will be in effect at all times.
Time Limits
Debaters have up to one week to respond after moderators post their assessments of the previous response. There is nothing hard and fast about a one week limit, and requests for more time made by email to
Admin or by posting to this thread will be honored unless it becomes too much a habit.
Any debater who disappears with no notice for more than two weeks will be deemed the loser by default.
Judging the Debate
Points will be awarded in this manner:
- Substantive point advanced: +1
- Substantive point rebutted: -1
- Guidelines violation: -1
Note that it is possible to have a negative score.
Like the legal system here in the US, the moderators are not on a quest for truth. Rather, they are seeking to assess the relative merits of the arguments presented by the debaters.
Ending the Debate
The debate will consist of 10 posts by each side. Whoever is ahead at the end of 20 total posts is deemed the winner of the debate. The debate may be extended by mutual agreement.
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