Has EvCForum ever changed anyone's mind?

I don't think a website like this one is supposed to change anyone's mind. However, I'll admit that I was once a hardline atheist who felt that science supported my views. Nowadays I'm more realistic about what science can and cannot tell us. I'm no believer, but I understand the inability of science to solve our philosophical problems.Science isn't here to make us feel good. If it doesn't back up our cherished little beliefs (whether they involve a Big Magic Guy, the absence of one, or the racial superiority of our particular group), then we either have to hold these beliefs on faith or discard them.I've really enjoyed my participation on this site, and I've already learned a lot from the many intelligent folks who post here. I agree with holmes, though, that not everyone is here to learn. I wish there were some way to distinguish people who really want to educate themselves from those who are just after attention, because usually we find out after too much time and effort has been wasted trying to engage them.------------------
En la tierra de ciegos, el tuerto es el Rey.

Zealot,You continually display the open-mindedness and thirst for knowledge that we have come to expect from fundamentalists. In thread after thread you have put forth arguments ranging from the well-worn to the utterly bizarre in a transparent attempt to disprove a well-supported scientific theory you barely understand.Now you want to hear Rrhain's theory concerning the Bible's references to homosexuality. However, you state that you doubt it's valid before you've even heard it!!!Thanks for your contributions to our discussions here.------------------
I would not let the chickens cross the antidote road because I was already hospitlized for trying to say this!-Brad McFall

Z,Remember this opening salvo?

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Hi, I'm merely curious as to how one would actually disprove evolution ( as opposed to creationism ).

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I think that establishes the extent of your knowledge of science, as well as your intent to discuss topics with an open mind.Feel free to claim that organisms have not evolved the ability to fly, since you refuse to listen to any of numerous explanations for the evolution of flight. Feel free to compare homosexuals to child molesters, merely because you ascribe holy authority to bigoted scribes who lived thousands of years ago. Feel free to claim that Jeffrey Dahmer's crimes had something to do with evolution, for whatever conceivable reason you had for doing so here.Science is all about what you think, Z, and smilies too.------------------
I would not let the chickens cross the antidote road because I was already hospitlized for trying to say this!-Brad McFall[This message has been edited by MrHambre, 09-10-2003]

Z-man, Here you expound upon the tolerance and understanding that your Christian faith has given you:

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Personally if 2 gay men want to call themselves married, feel free, I couldn't care less, however to do so with the notion that a Christian God approves of it is mockery of the Christian Faith.

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You might as well be disgusted at how Christians show hatred towards child molesters or people committing beastiality.

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I can't help but hear the voice of Christ in words so steeped in the spirit of love and forgiveness.------------------
I would not let the chickens cross the antidote road because I was already hospitlized for trying to say this!-Brad McFall