Making waves (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, June 06, 2013, 20:07 (4188 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Having said that, I should add that reading the exchanges makes me all the more grateful for the fact that over the years the discussions on this forum have embraced a very wide variety of views while only rarely descending to Joealtle's level of personal abuse!
 
DAVID: The nice aspect of the exchange was it allowed me politely to introduce myself and my background more than they knew. From the way they are tied to Christian fundamentalism, they would have trouble with my theistic version of evolution. They don't like the theistic evolution Christians who write-Who write what? I hope the fundamentalists didn't send down a thunderbolt to stop you finishing your sentence!-Perhaps when you have another spare moment, you could explain to them why you do believe in common descent - and while you're at it, remind them that Darwin was an agnostic who saw evolution as being compatible with religion. (No, I shan't join in their discussions - I can barely keep up with our own!)