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How frustrating it must be for the religious individual who strongly believes that the story of human creation from his or her religion is the correct one.
How frustrating it must be for that person to come here and see evolution or other scientific hypotheses and theories of human creation freely discussed, while a post promulgating his or her religious beliefs is likely to result in a locked thread, if not worse.
How frustrating it must be for the religious individual to see people talking about the facts and proof of science, when his or her own religious beliefs in an omnipotent deity clearly contemplate that such facts and proof could be placed here by that deity to test our faith. Could an omnipotent God create a fossil that looked 5 million years old? Obviously yes.
How frustrating it must be for that individual to post here in the Septagon and receive numerous ignorant and naive replies about how science is valid while religion is not. I want to be clear that I do not join the few previous repliers who have posted in such a way.
I completely, utterly, 100% sympathize with the sentiments of the first two posts. But at the same time, you must look at things objectively. While equal treatment of all views on any particular subject would be ideal, the simple, basic fact of life is that some topics are more inflammatory than others. A rational post about a scientific fact, theorem, or hypothesis is highly unlikely to generate personal attacks, while the opposite is true for a religious post. Science is not a religion; in many ways, it is the opposite of religion in that it never calls for faith or belief in anything that cannot be proven.
As a result, there is inherently (and almost by definition) a lot less controversy about the conclusions of scientists as opposed to the conclusions of religious leaders when it comes to talking about how humans began. Thus, such topics of discussion are a lot less likely to, as Recon put it, "get out of hand." The possibility of offending a religious person is, in my opinion, not enough to preclude a person from posting about science. Whereas the possibility of a thread getting out of hand with flaming and personal attacks is.
Once again, I want to be clear that I am not saying that one is more right OR more valid than another. But unfortunately, although I totally see your side of the issue, I must respectfully disagree with the original post.
[Edited on 08.26.2007 10:04 AM PDT]