Comments on: Evolution vs Intelligent Design

By: grammarking

grammarking — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:40:28 +0000

It’s a fair comment. You kind of give it away in the preamble though. When people do and say things as a member of a religious organisation, they represent that organisation. If other members don’t agree, not only is it undemocratic for that member to represent the organisation, but it can misrepresent it in a way which can have negative consequences for everyone. In this case a very small minority of people in the Christian community are shouting out making ludicrous statements that are simply not true, ruining the good name of the majority who don’t believe in what they’re saying. And they’re allowed to do it.

By: ejh

ejh — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:31:29 +0000

How often do Christians turn on creationists and say “hold on a sec, you’re talking rubbish, I’m not letting you represent me”?

Why are people obliged to do this? People are responsible for what they say themselves, and to a degree, for statements and actions of groups of which they themselves are members. But the insistence that people condemn, or distance themselves from, people whose views they do not share, just because they have something else in common, is not a healthy one: it’s really a step or two too close to zealotry.

By: Stuart Ritchie

Stuart Ritchie — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:59:41 +0000

Thank you for your kind words!

Damn, I really should have said that about moderates standing up to fundamentalists. I’ve used the point before, elsewhere, but it totally slipped my mind the other night…

And OK, I do have a problem with people being religious, but I hardly wanted to get into a big discussion about that – those chimps needed to get to bed!