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by silent_cal 855 days ago
I have no idea, I just know that not everyone who criticizes the theory is a young earth creationist.
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True, there's a whole taxonomy of completely discredited schools of thought adjacent to young earth creationism but different in their respective details.
Lol, you are so biased
'Bias' means a lot of things to a lot of people. I'm perfectly comfortable being called biased against criticisms of the modern synthesis, which is not the dig that you seem to think it is. I would reject the idea that I'm biased in the sense of predisposed to unfairly reject a legitimate idea due to pre-existing ideological commitments, but I suppose the devil is in the details on that one.

Suffice to say I don't think critics of evolution are rehabilitated into respectability just by noting that there are other forms than young earth creationism.

Supporting the modern synthesis is the most boring thing you can do. No significant scientist has ever become famous for doing that.
I don't see how that has anything to do with anything. Perfectly happy to be boring.
It's not just boring, it's almost certainly wrong. If you're going with the mainstream consensus just because it's the consensus, chances are almost 100% that you are wrong. The history of science proves this. At any given moment we only see one small facet of the truth, and we need real thinkers (not sheep who just echo "consensus") to reveal other facets. Your attitude impedes scientific development.