Re: A new private mailing list?

From: Susan Brassfield Cogan (susanb@telepath.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2000 - 23:06:28 EDT

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    Allen Roy wrote:

    >Unless a email list is restricted in some way or another it soon becomes
    >dominated by vocal, opinionated believers in evolutionism. I am also a
    >member of the CRSnet (Creation Research Society) email list. After troubles
    >with having the list open to most anyone, they restricted membership to
    >those who join the society. While it is sad that not as many people can be
    >involved, that is balanced by the ability to be able to discuss topics
    >without the noise and raspberries of antagonistic acolytes of evolutionism.
    >
    >They use a statement of belief as the discriminating feature. Those who
    >join are those who already agree with the viewpoint rather than being forced
    >to tow the line.

    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.
    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?

    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.

    Susan

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