Practice what you preach.
You are a purveyor of woo, an enabler of evil, and an apologist for superstition all of the time.
Well, whatever. You're entitled to your opinions.
The problem is that your opinions are, despite your adopted moniker, rather simple. Religion sucks. Religious people suck. If you are religious, you suck. If you aren't religious, but don't attack the people who are, you suck.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but it doesn't really contribute to understanding.
So, along comes a story about the Ark, and some people point out that there is a long history of fraud, and that an Ark wouldn't be seaworthy, and the volume of rain would sink any boat, and all sorts of issues related to why we ought to be skeptical about any suggestion that someone has found a boat on a mountaintop.
Meanwhile, you say it's stupid.
In this particular case, I happen to agree that it's stupid, but there's more to it than that. Some people actually believe this stuff, or think there's a reason to, and many of us are trying to find some sort of angle that might break through that belief to make people reconsider their faith in such superstitious nonsense as worldwide deluges. That's hard to do when some of the participants in the conversation simply want to trumpet their own opinion that everyone who disagrees with them are idiots, or worse.
Meanwhile, I was pointing out to 154 that, although he felt a bit attacked, most of the attacks were coming from a single source. If he ignored that source, his ideas would still be under assault, but I think he would at least have a different perspective on the prevailing attitude on these forums.
