(April 27, 2014 at 10:47 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: I would like to suggest that members are encouraged to respect one another, refrain from using foul language, and insults. If this happens repeatingly that the member be warned.I respect theists more when they let their hair down a bit and give as much as they get. You've been a bit snarky and sarcastic in some of your comments and I think that's a good thing, because it shows that you're not just some comment-bot.
And I also note that you (like many people who wish to seem put upon) often respond to those who are being the most insulting, as if you want to make sure we see that cross that you are bearing. Why not just ignore the people who you feel are simply attacking you? You've mentioned a couple of times that you are a bit overwhelmed by so many responses to your posts and cannot get to them all, so why waste any time with the posts you feel are denigrating?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
