[MD] Demanding Evidence From Theists

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Andre]
Thus following your example, claiming the right to free speech (an 
intellectual PoV) by advocating the divinity of the Great Pumpkin ( a 
social PoV) is immoral. Is this making sense or am I missing something?

[Arlo]
Unless I misunderstand, by this reasoning it'd be immoral for me to 
stand on a street corner and yell about how Germany is going to 
dominate the World Cup this year. :-)

I am in agreement that "free speech" entails responsibilities ("with 
great power..."). And for that reason I think that demanding evidence 
before "creationism" is taught in our schools as an equally valid 
alternative to "archeology" is moral. The same way Goedel couldn't 
just crash math conferences with posters reading "Incompleteness 
NOW!", he had to actually put forth reasonable justification for this 
theories. But in other venues, I prefer just tuning these people out. 
If Goedel wanted to stand on a street corner yelling "We are all 
Incomplete!", I'd have little reason to feel compelled to stop him.