At 10:06 PM 10/10/2000, you wrote:
>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.
Susan
>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.
Chris
Not true. You may not learn from people who *only* know what you know,
though even this is not always the case, because they may have a different
way of stating things that stimulates new ideas, etc. But, you knew that,
didn't you? :-)
However, it is true that the list would be less interesting with only one
set of beliefs. Further, despite my disagreements with Stephen Jones, I do
find his media article postings valuable.
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