My take on Life

[Rahul]

Wow... this place is hostile. I know I'm new here, but the original post seemed to me to be stating his opinions, knowing most of us would disagree with them, in a relatively polite way. And you people come here and started cursing him out unprovoked. I can certainly understand the questions of "What do you expect us to say after you already said you wouldn't change your mind?", and the responses explaining how he gets the science wrong. But the responses here definitely seemed unnecessarily rude. I've been saying for 20+ years that spelling and grammar were the first two casualties of the internet, with civility in third. You people seem to be trying to prove that civility is actually the deadest of the three.

Well Fromper, I think it stems from dealing with YECs and their hostile attacks on science.

For one, in order to be a YEC, you have to be willfully ignorant. Almost proudly so. And the main motivating force behind people willing to do this in regards to sciences such as evolutionary theory, geology, cosmology, etc, is because of religion. Atheists tend to not stay in herds. We're fractious and always disagreeing with each other. Religious folk seem to like safety in numbers. Atheists find that urm...how can I say this politely. Well, pathetic.

YECs make up most of the driving force behind preventing research and development of life saving scientific treatments in things like Stem Cell research. And they try to breed new generations of their own by attacking our school's ability to teach science.

This tends to piss off a lot of atheists.

So when someone metaphorically walks into our midst spouting YEC nonsense, and stating right off the bat they understand the science (which they obviously don't), and that they don't want to hear what we have to say, shit flies.

Pent up frustration I guess.