[VadeRetro]

What is antiscience?

On FR, the following topics are controversial:

1. Biology (contains actual biological evolution)
2. Geology (supports an old Earth)
3. Paleontology (supports the above two)
4. Astronomy (supports an old and mechanistic universe)
5. Cosmology (too often does not mean somebody's preconditions)
6. Physics (too mechanistic)

The actual objections to the above are more varied (sometimes fantastical) than my brief paraphrases can accurately portray. At any rate, let's say the common thread would be an unwarranted skepticism to anything we've learned in the last 200 or so years.

[Jim Robinson]

I doubt that. The socialist/leftist/liberal attacks on our rights to freedom of religion and limited government intrusion, ie, the government forcing the theory of evolution and other socialist dogma on our school children (man springing from apes rather than the biblical account of creation; atheism; homosexualism; feminism; whacko environmentalism, etc) may be controversial, but not science itself.

[68 grunt]

... On FR, the following topics are controversial: ...

Hey, listen! Any subject is controversial if we allow it. There are people here solely to cause division. Any topic. Any wedge they can drive. Any negativity they can spread.

Intelligent debate is what we want. Intolerant argument is what these counter-productive elements give us.