13 Sept 07

Xxxx > Dearest Alan

Xxxx > Boy this really gets to you doesnt it? Chill man

Alan > No Xxxx, on the contrary, your 5 e-mails to date on the subject of Trinity Academy strongly suggest that it is actually getting to you. Chill Man.

Xxxx > Where is all this hate from?

Alan > As an old hand in debating creationists, I hope you don’t mind if I point out that you should have added dogmatic, anti-Christian & intolerant to the above ad-hominem. Look, like this:

Alan > (pretending to be Xxxx) > “Why are you so hateful, dogmatic, anti-Christian & intolerant”?

Alan > Remember, the next time you get stuck in an argument with an anti-creationist, send them across to me. I will sort them out for you!

Xxxx > Is something else going on with you, I mean like personally?

Alan > Ad-hominem psycho-babble; good, I see you learn fast.

Xxxx > You seem almost obsessive.

Alan > But not half as obsessive as the creationists who are taking over our schools, or the creationist organisation with the deliberately misleading name, Truth In Science, who bombard schools with anti-intellectual creationist propaganda.

Xxxx > I just think they seem to know what they are doing

Alan > Yep, they sure do!

Xxxx > I'm not saying its a religious thing, maybe they are just more professional that the professionals you are talking about. Perhaps that's why they take on bad behaviour?

Alan > It’s only a school, not a nuclear power station. They’re the same students (in terms of ability – or so we are told), the same books, the same teachers, teaching the same subjects to the same curriculum, in roughly the same buildings in the same country. Surely it is not beyond the realms of possibility for same high standards to be applied universally?

Xxxx > Anyway I'm not into evangelical fervour like you.

Alan > Sigh; that should have been, “fundamentalist fervour” 5/10 (& try & get something about Stalin in next time).

Xxxx > Just waht seems to work

Xxxx > Kids only have one chance

Alan > That’s no excuse for allowing impressionable children to be exposed to creationist nonsense.

Xxxx > Up load away, I'll sign off for now

Xxxx > With greatest respects

Xxxx > Xxxx

Alan > Best Wishes,

Alan > Alan