GDR} writes:
I was able to have discussions with Faith without resorting to name calling and labelling.
I don't think I ever called Faith names, yet she felt free to call me names. I'm sure many others could say the same thing. So, how do you figure she was "driven" away?
Evangelical Atheists seem to be applauded, but evangelical YECs are treated with derision.
I don't see that at all. I would challenge you to quote a dozen or so threads in which "evangelical atheism" is expressed - and another dozen in which that expression is applauded.
And it isn't so much the evangelical YECs
themselves who are being derided - it's their
ideas. And their ideas are being derided both scientifically
and Biblically.
The problem here is not that there's a double standard - if anything, the YECs are given
too much leeway. The problem is that the YECs
have nothing but their belief. When their belief is challenged, all they can do is whine and run away.
When YECs drive by with their empty ideas, the scientifically-minded have no choice but to expose that emptiness. The site is called "Evolution
versus Creation" after all - not "Creationist Soapbox".
People who think they have all the answers usually don't understand the questions.