First off that would be fun. I hope we do it. Perhaps we set up PS venue for this.
Thank you. The dialogues is important.
Also, is acceptable to test out apologetics arguments on the boards.
Thank you very much for that. PdotdQ has already corrected several errors in my knowledge of the literature, and it will help me convey accurate information in my church course and the ID/Creation college course I’m putting together.
@stcordova I notice you have a tendency to introduce a lot of side topics. This thread has your name on it, so I’m not going to crack down. You don’t generally like splits, so I havent pushed for it. However if you want to avoid the pile on effect it helps to keep things tightly focused on scope.
Thank you for not cracking down.
I happy to start new threads by mutual agreement, but this thread was FORCED on me. I said I’d start a thread sometime, and then instead of waiting for me to start the thread with my writing the opening, the thread with MY NAME was put on the title. I didn’t create the title either, nor write the opening post in the way I felt appropriate. If a thread is FORCED on me like that, I think I then should have discretion on how I defend my points and whether I think I did a good job, not how Timothy Horton or evograd think I’m doing because. They say “I’m embarrasing myself” when in fact I might personally think the reverse. Who is to decide who is making the best argument but the interested readers, and the YEC/YLCs might certainly think I’m availing myself well in this discussion.
So thank you for giving me latitude in this thread. And again thank you for giving me a chance to clean up my teaching materials here.
You don’t generally like splits, so I havent pushed for it.
I don’t like splits being forced on me. Also, I didn’t want to flood PeacefulScience with many many threads. If for every side topic I introduced, and made a thread, there would be an immense number of threads, so as a courtesy to the forum, I didn’t want flood the forum.
You build trust when you are transparent about this, and you acknowledge directly where an argument fails, rather than shifting to a new topic.
Several of my arguments didn’t fail, I shifted to new topics and ignored mischaracterizations and misrepresetnations and veiled ad hominems. I’m not going to invest time in dealing with those when there is an abundance of data for my case. As I put that laundry list down, I was accused of a Gish Gallop. But again, this thread was forced on me with the rather general heading of “the fossil record.” That’s just asking for an immense discussion, so big a discussion that there is hardly a “side topic.”
That said, we can work this dialogue out. On behalf of my students and church, I thank you for the opportunity to help me deliver quality materials to them.