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Originally posted by TheDanish:
To anyone at all who's here and debating: why are you here, if you would normally have better things to do than to squabble over things that you know are already right -- or at least know that the other party is wrong? If you already know that [theory/myth] is wrong, and you know you aren't going to convince any ignorant person of anything, then what do you hope to gain by repeating the same things ad nausium? Could you be doing something more productive, like, say, research?
I'm here because I'm interested in the topic, not because I have some agenda to push.
- Dane
Personally, I would have stayed away from this whole evolution vs creation debate as its, well, a bit silly really. I mean, fancy trying to maintain that the Earth is 6000 years old and do so with a straight face - I'd put them in the same category as flat earthers.
But when creation "science" started getting the same airtime as evolution in schools in the US (and possibly soon in the UK), it hit home to me that those of us with a scientific background were not doing enough to publicise ourselves and foster confidence in our methods. This has allowed the dark thief of irrationality to creep in unawares, and more and more people are believing this crap.
On several occasions, quite intelligent (but uninformed non-scientists) people have told me "well, evolution's been disproved hasn't it?" based on something they may have read in the media (incidentally they can never tell me
how evolution's been disproved - it was always something they heard.
I'm not sure if that means I have an agenda or not, I'm here to genuinely learn from all the experts who post on this board, get acquainted with the arguments and try to understand the creation point of view.
PE
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It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains
fall out. - Bertrand Russell
[This message has been edited by Primordial Egg, 11-19-2002]
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