Creationists Will Destroy ATS, page 8

reply to post by riley

Hi, Riley. I should like to remind people that your original contribution to this thread is absolutely correct. The O&C Conspiracy forum was created to discuss the conspiracy by creationists to have their ideas taught in American schools, and generally to promote them in society. Skeptic Overlord's original post on the thread announcing the forum opening makes that quite clear.

Over the past year, with the evangelically charged U.S. election, the creationism movement has gained new momentum along with an increase in posts here on ATS. From a purely objective standpoint, the issue of an organized group seeking to diminish or replace a widely accepted scientific topic with one of pure philosophy and faith fits the description of a "conspiracy".

Your bête noire is doing the old creationist dance again: I call it the Twist.

Thank you for your kind words about this thread.

My thanks also, to everyone else who has been complimentary about the thread and my earlier posts on it.

Special thanks to Skyfloating, whose fairmindedness and ability to separate content from intent I have come greatly to admire in recent months.

To The Nighthawk, I wanted to add to your star collection but that facility doesn't always work for me. This is just to say that I agree with what you said in your first post and that my own position as a poster is very much the same as yours. We have had some fairly heated arguments in the past, you and I, but our political differences do not obscure for me the fact that you are someone who brings important and valuable ideas to this board.

To the person who thanked me for the 'u2u invite': I didn't u2u you. Are you suggesting that I started this thread as an invitation for people to u2u me and say they agreed with or approved of it? Well, you're probably correct. Freud said that writers write for 'fame, money and the love of women'. Actually, you can keep the money; I'll take the women.

Finally, a word to those who say that I advocate banning or persecuting creationists:

I do not advocate banning or persecuting anybody.

I made this clear in the third part of the OP.

I have never used my Ignore button, as far as I can remember.

I have never yet complained to a moderator about the behaviour of any poster, though I have been given ample occasion to do so by our creationist friends.

I believe in liberty of thought. What I object to above all is the absence of thought. That is why I would like to see the repetition of the same tired old creationist arguments curtailed. If this happened, it would force both the creationists and the rationalists to move forward, and the quality of discussion (or polemic, to use a term The Nighthawk might prefer) on ATS would improve.