It’s great when conservatives and others who tend to support the Republican party are willing to take a stand against the creationist elements on the right. Charles Johnson may not be, strictly speaking, a conservative, but his blog Little Green Footballs is widely read by conservatives, and he’s been doing a great job defending evolution against the religious right. Regardless of your views of his politics, he deserves applause for speaking up on behalf of real science in the face of an often hostile crowd. To see what I mean, just click over and scroll down. – Pandas Thumb
I suppose if militant atheists like the religious bigot Richard Dawkins and others are actually helping the cause of Darwinism, then that comment makes sense.
In my opinion they only hurt the cause of Darwinism. You don’t persuade people by being condescending and insulting while acting like a pompous ass.
From my experience the most condescending and insulting have been the Darwinist, that in and of itself speaks volumes.
You can only persuade people by being fair mined, honest and balanced and then let people decide for themselves. But you must also respect their opinion otherwise how could you ever expect them to respect yours?
(Update @ 4:06pm, Timothy Sandefur who is quoted above from Panda’s Thumb is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation.)
Also see http://sandefur.typepad.com/
I think that is really “Cato the elder” at 1.0 or something like that. The same who baited Robert Spencer into joining whatever hate group that was. Kind ironic the createor of the hate group is a member of 1.0, yet they somehow claim that makes Robert a bad guy. Nothing better then planting your very own BS evidence and then saying look, evidence!
Also note how 9/11 Troofer this is becoming. Attorneys pretending to be experts in Darwinism while the 9/11 Troofers have economic professors pretending to be experts in structural engineering.
Same shit different topic.
Updated # 1 @ 6:00pm, March 10th.
Timothy Sandefur says below in post # 124: ….“but I can say with certainty that I have never written anything under the pseudonym of “Cato the Elder,” and don’t know who you are. I don’t spend time in chat rooms or blog discussion areas, and rarely post comments to blogs.”
Update # 2: Tonight I found this at 1.0
# 1053 Cato 3/10/09 8:17:57 am reply quote
“I have represented a lot of sign owners in my day and the 1st Amendment arguments usually don’t work because there are time and place restrictions applicable. Also, since Lady Bird Johnson’s beautification initiative, signs have been considered an eyesore”.
Now, I suppose its not impossible to have a poster at 1.0 who is an attorney with this nic (Cato) and a reader of 1.0 from the Cato institute who is also an attorney and they are not the same person, but I still wonder, the coincidence seems a bit close.
It should be noted that Mr Sandefur is part of the Darwinist crusade to censor balanced discussion of evolutionary theory in science classrooms.
So Charles Darwin Johnson and Mr Sandefur see eye to eye in that regard. These types are looking to have their atheistic agenda taught in public school on the public dime, while others views are not allowed. I detest censorship of any kind and as we see, others not so much.
“Mr. Sandefur wishes to exempt his own religious belief — atheism — from constitutional scrutiny”.-Michael Egnor
And also see this from the Discover Institute
Timothy Sandefur responds to Michael Egnor
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