How can we tell creationists and intelligent design advocates fear debating their ideas with scientists?
– Religious kooks send threatening notes to biologists at the University of Colorado.
– Other religious kooks contemptibly make excuses for the threats.
– Don’t take my word for it; read the things for yourself, and you decide.
Bug Girl lists several instances of threats against teachers of evolution. The phenomenon is not new, and does not appear to be decreasing (though not rampant, either — thank God).
Vox Day, Pat Sullivan, time to stand up for free debate, civilized answers, and no threats — where are you?
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Hopefully, the “religious-themed group” won’t turn out to be exponents of the Sumerian creation story. That would really muck up the discourse.
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