Religion/Politics Threads: This really needs to stop(plus a poll)

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WagnerPaiva said:

aLkaLiNE said:
As an agnostic, I agree with this 100%!!! It would be nice to have discussion regarding intelligent design but it's pretty discouraging to touch on the topic when anyone who isn't an atheist is labeled as ignorant or stupid.

I encourage you to read/listen/watch the work od David Berlinsky, which is a agnostic like you, but one of the strongest minds oposing the new antitheism of Dawkins and Chris Hitchens (RIP). You will be surprised. Also, check it out EXPELLED, a entire movie about the same issue you broght up.

I know proselitism is unconfortable and evangelism is most of the time unrequited, so I assure you these are nothing of the sort.

I encourage you to read this deep analysis of the movie's claims and evidence:  http://www.counterbalance.org/expelled/index-frame.html

FYI, the writer is Christian and used to be a high level Intelligent Design advocate, but has since abandoned it.  The part that seems most relevant to what you were talking about is his examination of the claims of academic censure and blackballing of people who questioned evolution or proposed intelligent design.  He assessed one case as being totally without merit; in another case any repercussions were minor at worst and more like not being invited to office parties; and in the third case he reckoned that the guy's application for tenure might indeed have been affected, but there were also other factors.