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Originally Posted by iceman
Your statement is justified, given the forum guidelines. However we've had a (long) thread on intelligent design a few months ago, and I let the thread continue, with a warning to keep it on topic, respect people's opinions and don't get personal. And the same applies here.
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Well put Ice - that sounds fine.
I've been around around online forums (and newsgroups before that and BBS's before that ...
) long enough to see the potential for mischief here.
But as you say, from what I've seen, the people here seem pretty sensible about things - so fair enough. Especially if there's a history of being capable of discussing things like this nicely (which I wasn't aware of).
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If ID is science, then it does not breach the forum guidelines...
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As for whether it's science or religion - true, that's what the very argument is about - so (IMHO) could only escape being categorised as a religious discussion by technicality. To all intents purposes it is a discussion which can not be had without reference to religion (directly or indirectly), so the spirit of the guidelines would hold if we felt they needed to be kept.