But I would post something on that Sancho, particularly if it linked to the article you've just linked to. It's a new one on me, and it has just enough touch with reality to make for some interesting debate.

It's a lot more interesting than Creationism, which has to ignore whole swathes of geological evidence. They're actually on to something, although not the thing that I suspect they think they're on to. The "laws" of physics are mostly just observations from which we deduce relationships. There is a mystery at the centre of it all. In a sense they may just be expressing the God of the Gaps theory in another form.

Or maybe not.

Seeing as you're asking, Graham, I think your provisional decision is the correct one. Approving a post on creationism would in my view definitely lower the tone of the forum, in much the same way that approving the articles written by climate change denialists has already done.

I actually think far too much emphasis is given to religion on this site. I doubt it is a subject of high priority in the lives of the majority of readers and posters, and yet, at any one time on OLO, there is always a disproportionately high number of articles and discussions on the subject.

EVO

'They just whinge about the coming of the end.'

Funny how their is a lot more press on global warming (sorry climate change) bringing us to the end than what the vast majority of Christians talk about. The earth worshipers speak of the evil men (usually white Europeans) who have done so much damage to this planet that it can't survive. Yesterdays West reported how thousands of houses are going to be swallowed up in Perth by rising sea levels. If anyone wants to sell one cheaply now please let me know. This sort of stupidity is the so called 'science' that is being indoctrinated into kids attending State schools (and some private). When I was at school it was the coming ice age that was going to bring us down. Anyone challenging this crap certainly was not given a hearing on ABC and was branded a heretic. The Greens and their blind followers are the biggest scare mongers on this planet. A lot of this garbage is swallowed because many choose not to believe in the obvious (their Creator) who one day they will answer to. Many non Christians how commented on how much of a fraud evolution is.

Well said runner.

Many who uplift science as the great power and the great direction above and away from Gods Word, are little more than those who cast the bones to tell the future.
The Genesis account is a solid, reliable description of what God Has done.
Men dont want to believe The Word because it speaks of sin and its consequences; and encourages a submission to God and not man doing his own thing...so they in their thrashing around in their ignorance and primitive ways, they shut it out of their minds.

The evidence of mans failure, as you said, is Global Warming.
We build the great technolgical revolution and we rape the planet to feed it!
Im glad God will soon step in and bring an end to the rape.

What Bronwyn said. Both religion and its more passionate adherents are already over represented here. We're already treated to a biblical take on everything from politics to potatoes. And we already know that discussion of religion invariably descends into a pooh fight. The proposed article asks for evidence, but we already know any evidence would be buried in a slanging match.

There's a strong possibility that these things discourage potential commenters from participating, and that's not good for the site.

I hope you're listening Graham. Our lefty mates don't like any competing ratbaggery on here. You must stop the god lovers having a say, even if they are rational.

Meanwhile, you're letting a few rational folk, interfere with those computer geeks who gave us the Y2K scam, developing their new one, with global warming. After all, they need something to replace all those lovely, highly rewarding, jobs they lost at the turn of the century.

Our lefties love this one, as it suites their dream of self flagellation for the human race, so would you please ban any thing approaching rational posts on these subjects.