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Message 44 of 199 (429208)
10-18-2007 8:24 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by DiscipleFire
10-16-2007 5:59 PM


But how many you moderators are evolutionists?
Most of us are.
This site seems extremely biased.
It is.
Claiming evolutionary beliefs as scientific is one example.
Stating a position is not bias.
I see very little support from any mods for topics supporting creationism.
Look harder.
In more verbose verbiage:
We rarely suspend people here for long periods of time, and almost never without significant warning. My experience is that this is in stark contrast to many other moderated fora (with a bias on either side, but especially creationism). We recognize there may be bias, and have often been criticized for over compensating for this by going too easy on disruptive creationists.
Perhaps we can conduct some empirical research: How many threads are neutral in topic and get rejected/promoted? How many are creationist perspective and get rejected/promoted? How many are evolutionist in perspective and get rejected/promoted? I suspect we will find evolutionist posts will be promoted more than creationist posts.
There are three possibilities:
1) Evolutionist moderators are biased, and they manage to intimidate the creationist moderators (there are a couple of them) away from promoting creationist's PNTs
2) Creationist's PNT are simply of lower quality. Perhaps contain too many disparate points, copy/paste from other sources too much, are not written civilly etc etc.
3) A combination of the above.
Let's look at the evidence:


Why the interior of the earth is cool - on hold. Simple got a similar set of posts promoted a while back and it didn't go well. See Message 58 and beyond.
Dinoglyfs in the cave paintings? - clearly not up to scratch.
Young Earth Evidence - not focussing on a single topic

That is a list of all the rejected creationist perspective threads in the last month that I was able to find. Can you find more? My search algorithm was rather simple and may have missed some. I'm happy to get comprehensive about this if you'd like. Can you give us a good reason to promote these 3? Can you give us an example of a thread that should have been promoted, and that it must have been evolutionist bias that prevented it?

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