>>Why don't the "intelligent designers" just back off, and everyone comprimise with "God was at/the cause of the Big Bang, and chance and evolution took over from there"? My 10-year-old's comfortable with this (in fact she even proposed it to me when we were discussing the subject)
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>C'mon, Terry, you know why. Fanatics are the same everywhere. These people Truly Believe - to admit that they are wrong would be akin to admitting that they are potentially wrong about a lot of aspects of their life. That's a bitter pill even for reasonable people to swallow.
Aye. They should have kept schtum in the first place. Once they've put the foot in the mouth it's difficult to extract :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
