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Then perhaps you should contact those who did the interview and ask for that information.
 
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But I'm not making sweeping claims that an entity called Scienceville is performing a systematic discrimination of creationists, preventing them from even aquiring degrees. (You've even implied that extends to Christians in general). If i was, this is the sort of evidence I'd want to check first. I'm not saying there haven't been individual cases from time to time. I've not seen any industry that hasn't had a case of unfair dismisal in its time. But that's very different to an open policy of discrimination.
 
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So you admit that discrimination is happening and that the conditions based on that discrimination do occur in regards to peoples beliefs... thank you for proving my point.

While I do realize this was just your attempt at humor. It does underline my point and the point of the article I shared. Ridicule and discrimination do happen in Scienceville. Here it is just a little trickle from above but discrimination nonetheless.
 
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You obviously did not read this part of my post: Also the existing law that allows believers in God to become scientists will remain as is.
 
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Perhaps you should know that Tesla was responsible for giving mankind electrical power and lighting. His insistence on the use of Alternating current as opposed to the Direct current favoured by Edison; gave us not only electrically run industry etc. but most important LIGHT!
 
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Psudopod, you would only need to go onto most science sites online and you will find repeated references and mockery of creationists being wrong and lying and unintelligent, etc. That is discrimination in Scienceville. Just follow the posts on this one forum and you will see it is filled with mocking, insults, attacks against creationists (not just us posters)etc. Far more than you would ever have against science. You can't go to a Richard Dawkins meeting without his continuous stream of insults upon creationists. It just trickles down from the top to the bottom. It is everywhere now. It's in the books, it's in the blogs, it's in the articles, it's everywhere and you still try to deny that you don't see any evidence of it and you need some? Well, while you keep your eyes closed and don't want to imagine that something this bad IS happening, I can see it and I don't need to go very far to believe that it is happening. This particular article and interviewer went further. He took it out to those who were the very victims of it and exposed it in his article. I believe him and those he interviewed are not lying or mistaken. It happens. It's out there. I know it and you know it too, if you will just look.
 
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You obviously did not read this part of my post: Also the existing law that allows believers in God to become scientists will remain as is.

That's what the article is talking about. The existing law is not supporting and therefore does not allow believers to become scientist anymore. Discrimination is slipping right on through the law.
 
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That's what the article is talking about. The existing law is not supporting and therefore does not allow believers to become scientist anymore. Discrimination is slipping right on through the law.

There's many believers who are scientists. They may not be creationists, but at least half of the people in my program are religious. There's a notable lack of flat earther's in astrophysics. Do you think that's because a) there's a conspiracy that weeds out flat earther's or b) the data do not support flat earther's assertions? It's also important to point out that the critics of Kettlewell were not creationists. The article you've linked has one side of the story, which you've leapt on as correct, without looking at the underlying evidence or the accounts of the individuals involved. It's not that simple.
 
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That's what the article is talking about. The existing law is not supporting and therefore does not allow believers to become scientist anymore. Discrimination is slipping right on through the law.


i think this is where a equivoaiton fallacy comes in

dis·crim·i·na·tion

   /dɪˌskrɪm əˈneɪ ʃən/ Show Spelled[dih-skrim-uh-ney-shuh n] Show IPA
–noun 1. an act or instance of discriminating.

2. treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.



3. the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment:

You are complaining that it is the first.

We are saying that it is a case of the second.

using judgment is not a bad thing! "discriminating" in that sense against those who do bad science is using good judgment!
 
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Psudopod, you would only need to go onto most science sites online and you will find repeated references and mockery of creationists being wrong and lying and unintelligent, etc. That is discrimination in Scienceville.

Not if it's true -- if your beliefs force you to espouse ideas which are wrong and unintelligent, and you are forced to lie in otder to make them appear otherwise, then you've gotten what you've deserved -- ejection from Scienceville.

Just follow the posts on this one forum and you will see it is filled with mocking, insults, attacks against creationists (not just us posters)etc. Far more than you would ever have against science.

There's a reason for that -- but not one that you'll agree with.

Have you read some of the drivel posted by creationists around here? Dad, Doveman, AV1611VET -- have these self-appointed creationist spokesmen earned anything but mockery?


Dawkins is a man with an agenda -- no doubt about that.

The rest of it, well, is well-deserved.

Well, while you keep your eyes closed and don't want to imagine that something this bad IS happening, I can see it and I don't need to go very far to believe that it is happening.

Well boo hoo -- sorry, there's no place in Scienceville for self-pity.


If Scienceville is such a big, bad place, why do you want in in the first place?
 
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The 'debate' such as it is between science and creationism no doubt does rank as the titanic battle between the forces of good and evil... in the minds of the creationists. It does elevate their perception of their status to think so.

The true status of creationism on the world scene would be more like a small town mayoral contest that may seem ever so important to Smallville.
You have an election? Good for you and so what?


Neither is the battle of titans that will decide the future of mankind and the fate of supposedly immortal souls. Neither is the super bowl.

To the scientific community as a whole, let alone outside of the USA, say in Japan, "creationism' is a non issue, like astrology.
 
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