Re: Science Questions

• From: darwins_bulldog1138
• Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:00:40 -0700
• Message-ID: <000TCJST8.001NJ3VPP.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

<<So, in effect hard-core evolution is very
much like a religion. It is faith-based. However,
unlike Christians who believe in religious freedom, the
evolutionist religion would like to limit any speech that does
not support it.>>

Asking people not to
write science questions on creationism is like asking
people not to write science questions on the biographies
of US Supreme Court justices or the plots of Ibsen
plays. The relative truth or importance of each topic is
irrelevant to the fact that they are not science. Secondly,
ASKING you voluntarily to follow the distribution when
writing quizbowl rounds does not imply a desire to haul
you off to jail for believing in
creationism.

Nor can the two percent atheist or less than one
percent biologist population of the United States do
anything to the ninety-five percent Christian population
that the latter doesn't want. To even suggest that
Christians in the quizbowl world or the United States as a
whole suffer censorship for their beliefs is an insult
to the millions of people who have sufferred
tangible consequences 
for their religious principles
throughout history. However, it's perfectly in line with the
"persecution! persecution everywhere!" complex which seems to
affect hardcore practitioners of every religion. The
fact that the Christian population of the US is the
largest and most powerful group of people with the same
religion within one country in the history of the world
isn't enough to stop right-wing Christian leaders from
their constant assertions of Satanic conspiracies under
every rock.

Oh yes, and I've tried to refrain
from ad hominems to this point, but your reference to
a conspiracy to suppress speech by "the
evolutionist religion" clearly shows that you are either
getting your information from Jerry Falwell or just don't
know what the words "evolution" or "religion" mean.


Everything we know about the world and every comfort of
modern life is due to science. Your brand of obligatory
blind faith has produced nothing but wars and ignorance
throughout history. If you keep insisting that everyone
choose between science and religion, I know where I
stand.

--M.W.