Precisely, if more debate was allowed to occur withing what should be the free market of scientific ideas, the origins/historical sciences would benefit just as much as as any other scientific enterprise...that is, so long as the debate is not declared “over” by those who have an agenda that has as its object something other than the truth!
>>that is, so long as the debate is not declared “over” by those who have an agenda that has as its object something other than the truth!<<
So you are cool with phrenology, astrology and alchemy participating in the “marketplace of scientific ideas,” right?
“by those who have an agenda that has as its object something other than the truth!”
Its easier to use its screen handle: freedumb. :o)