(October 20, 2010 at 7:57 pm)Ace Wrote: How? He does nothing but troll and annoy. All I can do is add him to my ignore list, which makes his posts vanish.
I've been arguing with him as much as anyone and he doesn't seem to be here for any reason other than the reasons we're here. He's certifiably wrong but he's broken none of the forum rules to my knowledge despite the aggressiveness of the atheists and scientists debating him.
So I'm inclined to think he's not a troll any more than any of us are, despite believing in things that defy all common and sensible empirical knowledge.
I see no reason to try to drive him out or force him to do anything until he starts breaking rules.
He's certainly been more amiable than previous nutjobs that have trolled here before so other than believing in crazy, nutty things I don't believe it would look good to kick him out for believing in crazy ideas.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
