Have you been here long?
About five years.
Have you *ever* seen an evo 'discuss' a scientific matter seriously to its logical conclusion?
Yes indeed, very frequently. Although I have seen them often give up midstream when faced with frequent namecalling, catcalls, hoots from the peanut gallery, and denials of basic fact that make any sort of common ground difficult to find.
Hey by now we just cut to the chase. We know they always back out when it comes down to "where'd it all come from?"
Not true -- I've seen many "evos" cheerfully dive into discussions of the question "where'd it all come from?". If you think they "always back out" at that point, you're simply not paying attention, or are mistaking your preconceptions about them for reality.
Because the answer to that either A. doesn't matter or B. it turns a person's whole world upside down. Quite a choice. Easier to just ignore it.
I see no problem with "doesn't matter". You don't have to know where air came from to study meteorology. Weather is weather either way. And when physicists study the manner in which balls roll down hills, they rightly get exasperated at people who keep insisting on asking, "but how did the ball get up the hill to start with, huh, huh?"
That's not "ignoring" the question as if there's something they're trying to avoid, it's just that the question is not pertinent to the phenomenon currently at hand.
And your simplistic characterization totally fails to address the many "evos" who are Christian or Jewish and comfortably answer the "where'd it come from" question with "God did it", but still accept evolution also. You sort of "forgot" to even consider them when you incorrectly said that evos "always back out" from pondering first causes, eh?
Your mischaracterization of the participation of "evos" on these threads says a lot more about your own preconceptions than it does about theirs.
Maybe we leave because we get tired of all the namecalling.
People choose to study the Bible and mysteriously determine that all of the references to Adam throughout the Old and New Testaments are mythological. There are genealogies in Gen 5, 1 Chronicles, Luke 3 and Romans 5, which place Adam prominently as the first man, not to mention Adam's biography in Gen 1-5.
There are those who refuse that the Holy Spirit integrated 66 books by 40 authors to produce a singular complete message regarding the God of the universe and His dealings toward men. The text throughout the Bible supports this contention.
To take the Bible and pick and choose what one wants to believe is confusing for all. There can be no place to take a stand when wholescale text are relegated to the chopping block to support an unbiblical position.
I admit that there is much that is beyond my comprehension in the Bible, and that defending it can be difficult, however the areas that are clear, undoubtedly justify it's disagreement with evolution.