Its allot like "the peaceful islamic religion"... as long as you stay anonymous they might leave you alone... but as soon as they see your true beliefs... they brand you and persecute...
That is the argument used to excuse that behavior... but I dont agree with it being 100% scientific in nature... look at Michael Behe as one example..
And then...what about using the Coarts to Silence opposing views? IE having your like minded friends do Witch Hunts on specific people and their families... ???
I once knew a man... who made it his mission to search out reprinted mistakes and outright lies in the textbooks... they trumped up tax issues and threw him in prison for 10 years and his wife also got a year for being his spouse... in the end they killed his marriage and managed to ruin a great science related theme park...but he is now remarried and is more of a martyr with a mission.
I dont agree with him 100% but what was done too him was 100% wrong.
Islamic Myth... that is an Over the top exageration of what has been excluded... much like the fake news doing gross exagerations of "anything possable" to assassinate the character of apposing candidates...
I agree with Gunny777, but I am not going to explain why. This whole discussion is so dumb that it cannot be surpassed. At least Octavia-Melody defined what she thinks atheims is (although the defintion is incomplete).
Oh Octavia... we seem to be at the end of the reply stream... lol
But if you go to Wikipedia and scroll down through that complex article on Michael Behe and his back and forth tit for tat debates... he has made proposals for how things might be tested and they just find excuses from trying... IMHO its always going to be this way... Truthfully it is exactly as my meme said...
Hate me for it if you like... but right or wrong both of our positions are "Unprovable" by science.
Everyone gets to Choose what they will place their faith in. You might have more faith than I. ;-)