James, You stated: "Intelligent Design aggressively challenges the status of many professionals currently laboring in secular academia". I respectfully but completely disagree. And therein lies the rub -- most professional scientists are just plain sick and tired of the whole debate, because in fact there ISN'T a serious challenge of facts -- they exist only in the the minds of religionists that want to force their beliefs on others. And of course given that obvious level of sheer frustration (picture Neil Armstrong defending his moonwalk with conspiracy theorists that claim the whole Apollo program was filmed in a Hollywood back lot), dialog will sometimes include elements that may sound like "intimidation, threat, authority, and insult". Go figure. --- James Cobb <james@cobb.name> wrote:
As long as we're wading into the fever swamp, I found something of interest bearing on the grounds upon which this discussion tends to dwell.
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