[OPEN] Hello non-Christian lurkers!

[Willtor]

Unfortunately, there's no forum for origins theology debates. I don't know if that would really fit the intent of the crevo debate forum.

Incidentally, I am enjoying the debate between you and Mark.

 

[USincognito]

Thanks, I just posted Part II of my two part response if you're interested.

One possibility for debates without setting up a seperate forum is having a Mod start a thread and set out at the start "This thread is a debate between X and Y. Only they may post here." X and Y respond to the thread then as if it were a formal thread in a formal forum.

 

[dad]

delete

 

[Thirst_For_Knowledge]

There's an open tag now? Interesting.

 

[shernren]

Incidentally I'm not enjoying the debate. From the little that I know about debating you two are not meeting each other at all. A good debate happens when two opponents take diametrically opposite positions on a same issue and try to disprove each other. A bad debate, which I'm seeing, is when two opponents take positions on different issues and then try to snipe at each other from afar (or don't even bother and just build bunkers around their own positions).

If we started a debate thread, would be appropriate and/or possible to ask mods to remove non-debate posts made by non-members of the debate? perhaps this would be more flexible, tag-teams should be interesting!

 

[USincognito]

Sorry it's not up to snuff for you bud (and sorry about referring to you as "shenren" rather than "shernren" when I linked to your thread). Maybe it's because Mark and I disagree vehemently on the interpetation of the evidence while the gist of my debate premise is to myopically focused on one particular YEC argument regarding Piltdown.

I've already stated my option if Erwin won't code for a formal debates forum, but to expand on your multiple participants "limited" debate threads, there's no reason why a thread can't be started solicitating participants in a moderated, topic specific "formal" debate thread and then the mods stating that A, B, C, X, Y and Z can participate in the "semi-formal" thread but all other posts will be deleted.

 

[shernren]

Lol, I'm not saying it's anybody's fault this happened. Anything can happen in debates.

 

[USincognito]

shernren, I saw your comment about images in posts. If you go to the Edit Options page of your User CP there's a option to shut off Signatures, CF Characters and Images in posts.
http://www.christianforums.com/profile.php?do=editoptions