I was on this list back in the days when it was a private list of Phil
Johnson and there was lots of interesting discussion on it. Recently we
lost Glenn and John E. Rylander (rylander@prolexia.com)
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 20:10:50 -0600
that "an increasingly large percentage of the posts are off topic." But
as John also noted, "that the quality of this list,
particular on the topic of Christianity and Evolutionary theory, has
been getting quite low, and an increasingly large percentage of the
posts are off topic." And he noted that there are a couple of noisy non
christians with a different agenda that are "turning this into just
another alt.atheism or talk.origins amateur slug fest. Those newsgroups
already exist, and for a reason."
I agree that this list should not be restricted to Christians but
neither should we let them change the nature of the list. I post on a
number of scholarly list out of my area when I want information, but
always try and do it with the realization that I am there as a guest.
Since this list is not monitored, it would take some folks politely
suggesting that certain topics or threads or even agenda would better be
handled elsewhere.
And broadly I think this list should at the minimum focus on issues
related to evolution and Christianity. There are plenty of lists that
deal with technical aspects of evolutionary theory and places for
Christians to slug it out with non christians but that should not be
what this list is.
Because of the noise in this list I now only read it from the archives.
but noise is another problem that I have addressed previously.
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