In a message dated 10/10/2000 8:12:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
susanb@telepath.com writes:
> 1. was any attempt made to enforce rules of courtesy?
> 2. without any difference of opinion, where is the discussion? I've left
> lists with too few creationists and too many evolutionists out of sheer
> boredom.
>
Ditto. Discussion works far better when dissenting opinions are present
> 3. ID (and creation "science") both claim to be science. Science is
> constantly exposed to the possibility of "noise and raspberries" it's part
> of the scientific system of peer review. If ID can't survive even the
> extremely informal peer review on a list such as this one, how is it *ever*
> going to hope to be taken seriously as science?
>
Well said.
> It's up to you if you want to belong to a list full of self-congratulatory
> agreement. To me that would be as dull as ditchwater. You can't learn
> anything from people who know everything you know.
>
My view exactly. I learn far more from those who disagree with my opinion
than from those who agree with my views.
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