Originally posted by reverend I\'m agnostic by the way.
With a name like reverend I should have assumed you to be agnostic.
I find that religion and politics are things suited for all media except forums. I include evolution in with religion as even the scientific community is split about it and fieldarchy in her reply uses the the word belief. There isn\'t enough inflection in the written word to properly convey a point and most of the people who start those kinds of wars are more prepared to start them then finish them.
I myself started a mess on these forums when I linked to a set of creationist videos. But, unlike most sites, this was a fairly respectable conversation with good information presented by the people involved. I don\'t think any such thing would show up on that theology site.
Religion requires an open seeking mind to pour drivel into, or a state funded lie that is constantly repeated, and just a grain of truth to attach itself to a person. From then on, changing a mind is really difficult. The one exception is that young Christians who go to state schools in the US have a huge turnover into evolution believing agnostics or atheists. I have a belief that more liberal minded individuals are seeking positions in schools and are using that platform to influence our youth. That is not to say that they are seeking the platform to influence our youth.
I do remember one biology teacher getting me so angry. She claimed I had inaccurately drawn an evolutionary tree. That the traits I decided were linked weren\'t the correct ones. Since I do not believe in macro evolution, I simply pointed out that her certainty was odd as the things that she purported to be gospel on how this creature evolved into these different creatures happened \"millions of years ago.\" I doubt she was around to watch it and know exactly what happened. I did not do well on the evolution part of that biology class. In hindsight, I should have just asked to be excused from that part of the class for religious reasons.
