Hi all,
I'd like to see the discussion about the standards for the science forums continue, primarily because I still don't understand the position best articulated by Faith. I'm pretty much in agreement with clarifications offered by Sylas and Ned about how the science forums are intended to be used, but I don't yet have a handle on why scientific standards are a burden for Creationist viewpoints. EvC Forum exists to explore Creationism's claim to be science. The debate is over for any Creationist who concedes he can't operate within a scientific framework. And Creationists who feel the standards of science should be different have the [forum=-11] forum to make their points.
I think the
Biblical Creationism and
Theological ID forums suggested by Faith are good ideas. We want to avoid having duplicates of all the science forums in the social/religious category, but there
*is* such a thing as Biblical Creationism, and it does seem like it deserves its own forum, and discussion on any of the topics covered by the science forums could be placed in a forum of that name. A few years ago I would have said that a
Theological ID forum wasn't necessary, that these issues could be discussed under
Biblical Creationism, but so much attention is focused on ID these days that now I think it makes sense.
I'm not so sure about the
Theology of History, probably because I don't know what that is. Is that the same as
History according to the Bible?
If we were to follow Faith's suggestion, the forums in the Social/Religious category would become:
- Bible Study
- Biblical Creationism
- Comparative Religions
- Education and Creation/Evolution
- Faith and Belief
- Social Issues and Creation Evolution
- Theological ID
I'm unhappy with the [forum=-32] forum's name. Maybe
Society and Creation/Evolution is better? I think of it as Syamsu's forum.
Anyway, that's a proposal.
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