Why is this important?

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

Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that anyone was pushing an agenda. Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have included that. Well, I know it's useless to debate the topic, but you're all (mostly) here for the same reason I am, more or less.

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Originally posted by Primordial Egg:
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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.
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I believe that that, if anything, is the core of the issue. People that don't understand what science is (school boards, voters) are making decisions about science, and those that do have an agenda to push will rely on those ignorances. Unfortunately, in the US, we have voting, where people, often ignorant of the situation, get to vote.If creationists want to teach creation as science, the burden of evidence lies on them, and they should take all of it into consideration, such as dodos on the Mauritius island. I could go into a huge spiel about all that, which I almost did save for me trimming my post a bit, but it's been rehashed by minds greater than mine more times than I can count (which was part of the reason I posted this topic in the first place), so I think I'll wrap it up now for the sake of being somewhat concise.P.S. I finished my paper (it wasn't that big of a project; 3-5 pages) that I talked about in said thread, but since nobody answered, I had to go on intuition. Oh, well.[This message has been edited by TheDanish, 11-20-2002]