There is a minor annoyance with necro'ed threads when people don't realize that it's been bumped and they respond to the early posts, then find that those posts are months or years old. For the occasional and meaningful bump, that's not an issue and can even be funny. When you have people who bump one old topic after another --especially to add some meaningless one-sentence reply-- it's no longer just annoying.
I do prefer DP's idea of consolidating a lot of the common arguments into a topic with links, to avoid the "don't necro, but don't start the same topic again" comments. It helps in those periods when there are a lot of new posters who bring up arguments we just finished discussing at length, or those who think that "Josephus spoke about the Christ" is some new and earth-shattering revelation for atheists.
I do prefer DP's idea of consolidating a lot of the common arguments into a topic with links, to avoid the "don't necro, but don't start the same topic again" comments. It helps in those periods when there are a lot of new posters who bring up arguments we just finished discussing at length, or those who think that "Josephus spoke about the Christ" is some new and earth-shattering revelation for atheists.
"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
