re: #291 Yashmak

I’m just curious, if one isn’t a creationist, yet attacks Darwin or evolution…what the heck other alternative is there?

The problem is that you combine any criticism of the man as a criticism of his theory. So you declare that I’m a secret creationist because I’m not so excited that out of all of the humans in the history of the world/America we somehow manage to celebrate this man in a manner that is much different from other men who actually did more for the world on a “singular” level.

Google, for instance, chose Darwin over Lincoln as their little drawing on the home page. That’s probably what set me off yesterday. It bugs me; Not because of his theory, but that Lincoln was “singular” and important to the nation - as a man - where as I feel that Darwin was just one of many men (scientists) who were working on the exact same theory. He wasn’t the first nor the last.

Darwin came up with some pretty good published writings on an emerging multi-nationally researched theory, but Lincoln saved the Republic! Could Google at least give that the greater nod to Lincoln on the man’s birthday?

Yep, maybe I’ve found what’s really chaffing me here…

But it’s really weird how some of you react and assume with so much energy and reckless abandon on this one topic when I would say overall that this site is the most reasonable and respectful of all of the blog sites. If you looked back on my posts in the past (on other threads) you’d probably find that you and I agree on most everything (even on evolution) and yet here we are - I’m a liar, and an idiot.

It’s the combative, dismissive nature of these evolution posts that bugs me and I guess after being a bit tweaked on the Google/Lincoln thing I put a little honey on my head and sat on this ant hill - I got myself into this trouble - but man… and yeah - I think Lincoln was a racist, too. Funny how that works.