The content of his OP is that the universe and the solar system are billions of years old, and that humans share a common ancestor with chimpanzees millions of years ago. These facts are well established, and widely disseminated in the western world. Yet some people choose to deny these facts and assert that these are not true because their religious dogma tells them otherwise.
If he's not right
either, and moreover doesn't care whether he is or not, why choose his "side" in some damn culture war? I'm not even talking about religion, which is not actually the supposed topic of the OP. Aside from some speculation about minds after death, all of the topics he raised with his "facts" are material, measurable, quantifiable, clearly demonstrable physical processes that do not require any supernatural agents to explain, and I do not see them as religious matters at all. Or they shouldn't be. If the goal is a clear understanding of the material world, the
only position that matters, that bears any meaningful worth at all in helping us understand the true nature of the physical universe, is that which embraces the methods and practices of the sciences. If he thinks that it doesn't matter whether or not "facts" are accurately represented, he's part of the problem, not the solution. I don't like it at all when fundy Christians try to subvert scientific conversations, but that doesn't mean I'm going to cheer when a secularist commits similar errors.
If you care about my respect... though I assume he does not... but if you care about my respect, then don't
tell me what your label is.
Show me. The callous disrespect for the sciences in the OP is what offends me about it, not my clandestine membership in some shadowy Christian cult or whatever. Labels mean nothing. I know plenty of Satanists with a good head on their shoulders and healthy respect for the scientific study of the world. And I know plenty of people who go into "atheist" internet spaces with what is really a social axe to grind, but no clue (or regard for) how the epistemology they are supposedly championing actually works. People who don't care about accuracy or rational process are far more of a threat to global well-being than any philosophical school could ever be in isolation. If his point is that that scientific inquiry should be celebrated (by misrepresenting its conclusions?), he's doing a very bad job of it.
If on the other hand, you want to argue with "some people" about what "some people" believe, have them drop by the forum sometime. I am not "some people", and their beliefs, whoever "they" may be, are irrelevant to the conversation until one of them shows up to make their case. All we have here is one person who showed up, said "here are the important facts", proceeded to type a bunch of things that were not actually facts, and one grumpy quasi-Paganish agnostic who had too long of a week to resist pointing out the obvious contradiction inherent between those two conditions. Figure out what you believe and what it means to pursue the world in a scientific framework, before worrying about what "some people" are doing wrong. On that, I
do quite agree with Jesus of Nazareth (apparently the unseen topic of the thread?). If there's a speck in your eye, you won't be able to fix that by volunteering to take out someone else's log.