(o) What topics are 'off topic' and why?
Eric wrote:
>Christian apologetics and *biological* evolution are off topic,
>because past experience has revealed that debate on these topics is
>useless and distracts Virus from making further progress. The purpose
>of Virus is to create a new religion based on memetics and
>freethought -- we will debate other religions only to the extent that
>we feel it helps our cause.
>
>"[So] long as the proponents of our best theories... have their
>attention turned defensively backwards, and expend their intellectual
>energies in futile refutation and re-refutation of theories long known
>to be false, the state of our deepest knowledge cannot improve." --
>David Deutsch, *The Fabric of Reality*
I think this needs work. I have two problems with it:
-Prof. Tim