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The big thing that Wycliff neglects to mention is that one does not and should not hold the same respect for all claimants. I think that few people believe that homeopaths should garner the same respect that actual doctors do. After all, it's not just that homeopathic medicidine doesn't have...

Evidence is not art, AR. It does not require a subjective opinion. While one can make a normative judgement regarding whether one likes an observation or not, it is not relevent to the accuracy of scientific theories.

I recommend The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity by Jack Repcheck. Of course, searching amazon.com for James Hutton will produce several other works. I also seem to recall an online version of one of Hutton's own books, though I don't have a link handy.

You've made claim after claim after claim, A4C. Substantiate, retract, or move on to the creationist only forum where they won't ask for that darn evidence. Free hint: spouting more religious opinions which are unsupported by evidence does not improve the credibility of your previously...

Deano, why are you making posts that don't address the posts which you quote? Why are your posts little more than inflammatory one-liners? Are you going to attempt to support your insinuations, or do you merely hope to attract the attention of a moderator to "clean up?"

I can't help but notice that no evidence for creation or against evolution has been presented. So how come JohnR7 keeps telling us that he's presented evidence that's unfairly dismissed? So how come JohnR7 keeps telling us that evolution is a lie? So how come JohnR7 makes ridiculous...

I guess we're going to go through it again and again until creationists present actual evidence or until they stop making baseless claims. In other words, I could be to the LMC and back before this gets old! :)

Gee, A4C, you left out a rather important line there. As it stands, your meaning is ambiguous. Quote mining, if such is your intention, is more appropriate in the creationist-only "forum."

This has been pointed out to you before, A4C. Science education is about teaching the best basic science we have, not about appeasing every belief system out there. If someone took on faith that atoms didn't exist and that matter could be divided infinitely without loss of chemical...

Hey, I'm not stopping creationists from getting new arguments. In fact, I'm pushing for it. But the first thing for them to do is abandon the arguments that have been disproven. Here's a starter list: Evolution is a religion Evolution has no scientific support Evolution and creationism are...

Cease your pathetic PRATTs, A4C. It only confirms the worst views that intelligent people hold against creationists. Scientific theories are not proven in the same sense as mathematical theorems. Germ theory, general relativity, and atomic theory are all just as "unproven" as evolutionary...

Who cares about such distinctions and what you consider to be spiritual? If I were to consider the Moon to be a sacred object, that does not mean that I should prevent students from learning of the composition of the Moon or prevent them from learning of the Moon Landings. The fact of the...

Uh, if a theory is not falsifiable, that means it offers no testable consequences. Without something in the way of a test, how would one judge if a theory is accurate or inaccurate? It's not that only good theories are testable, it's that a theory must be testable in order for it to be useful...

At this point, I think we can all agree that trying to take mythological and allegorical stories as literally true is non-sensical and causes one to miss the point of the story. After all, the fable of The Turtle and the Hare obviously did not literally occur, yet that does not mean that valid...

The "purpose" of the universe, as described by people who make this argument, is usually stated to produce us. It always amuses me that the purpose would be stated in such an egotistical manner. Here we are, a single species among a vast network of life, and it just happens to be humans the...

Not at all! What need would the creator of the universe have for money. Feh! You're provincial and materialistic. He wants you to send me money. And if smog disagrees, may he strike me down with a boulder-sized mass of money!

Wrong again, LttF. One does not look at the evidence or the scientific literature and come away with such opinions. The only way to come away with this opinion is if one specifically avoids evidence and spends time instead looking around on creationist websites. Evolution and the Big Bang...

Well, I've come across a few (not a representative sample mind you, but a few) conservatives who dislike NG because it's a decent source of articles on the natural world. In their view, anything that contradicts their claims or opinions (no matter how well factually supported this contradictory...

That's the problem: creationists would rather believe that the whole universe is some sort of deception than believe that they might be wrong. This is how they can blithely ignore all evidence contrary to their position. This is how they can ignore all arguments against creationism. This is...

This part of your post really makes me suspect that despite your claims of being taught evolution, you really had little understanding of the subject. I mean, I've seen the naturalistic fallacy a number of times, but I'm not at all sure just how one could justify abortion with evolution. In...