What is the scope of Peaceful Science?

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@fifthposition

If that’s the view here, again, that’s clearly fine, but then I would maintain that the official perception given for this forum (that it’s a place for peaceful dialogue between disagreeing sides in e.g. origins, where the disagreeing sides include YEC and ID) doesn’t fit the reality

That is the view of a participant on an open forum, not PS.

See these examples of dialogue:

1. Winston Ewert: The Dependency Graph of Life
2. Retire Darwin Day?
3. Reforming Young Earth Creationism
4. Durston: Functional Information
5. Hypothesis: A Deceptive Being Makes Many Genealogical Adams
6. Jeremy Smith: I Disagree with Dr. Swamidass

There are more examples of course. We invite everyone to the table. I have a view. Not everyone shares it, and that is okay.

[cdods]

@T_aquaticus

For those of us who have been in this arena for a while we are all familiar with the Golden Oldies, the hit parade of creationist arguments. We tend to instantly face-palm, but we do need to remember that these arguments may be brand new to the people who post them here. As you mention elsewhere, it is often stubbornness that we react to, but we should try to give new people a fair shake at the beginning.

I think this is absolutely key. The small number of YEC “activists” that show up around the internet are in no way representative of most YEC’s. Most YEC’s have never a seen a good scientific argument for why YEC science isn’t viable. Giving people a fair shake is only fair (and polite and peaceful).