Originally posted by jaywill
Do you realize that you are not objective ? You wreak with bigoted self interest to protect a world view that reaffirms your Atheism.
You are not purely curious about science. And you are not purely objective about it.
There is something totally empty in your complaint.
I do indeed have strong views which I can support with arguments in my own words. It is not appropriate to seek at the same time to express a strongly held point of view and to make a claim of being objective. That is irrational.
When I cite references, they are respected sources. The only serious complaints about the material I cite come, remarkably enough, from the small and untypical gang of Creationists and do not stand up to critical scrutiny. Compare that with the propoganda videos which you rely on for your arguments which are respected only by the same small and untypical gang of Creationists. I make no claims to be a scientist but this material is so infantile and predictable it is just child's play to refute it.
Your use of the term "bigotry" implies a refusal to listen, but I have demonstrably, for example, worked through both your arguments and some of the material you have referenced (your creationist videos). Indeed, I suggest that I give a more accurate account of the religious and creationists arguments than you have ever managed for the theory of evolution by natural selection, which you completely fail to understand. That kind of wilful ignorance is tantamount to misrepresentation and comes closer to the concept of "bigotry."
The notion that I am protecting my world view is insipid. What I have been doing is demonstrating with detailed argument and supporting evidence that the Creationist argument is defective and that is promoted dishonestly by interested people and organisations as part of a reactionary and socially damaging political campaign. Far from defending atheism, I have pointed out many times that Evolutionary theory does not in fact have to conflict with religious belief at all, unless you adopt a fundamentalist attitude to the whole topic.
Whether I am objective, bigoted, REEKING with self interest or defending my atheistic world view is not really the issue, is it? The issue is whether you can respond effectively to my posts other than by making personal remarks. Yes I do make personal remarks, but I do not rely on them as my argument.