To Facebook Group Members.

 

https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/to-facebook-group-members.html

There are a number of instances showing how creationists struggle with truth and reality, but only a few of them are open and honest about it.

I'll start with Kurt Wise, who admits that no facts could possibly change his mind, however clear they might be, showing him to be mistaken. https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/sadly-honest-creationist-creation.html

This reminds me of Answers in Genesis' "Statement of Faith" which asserts"

• "By definition, no apparent, perceived or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the scriptural record. Of primary importance is the fact that evidence is always subject to interpretation by fallible people who do not possess all information."

https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/aig-statement-of-faith.html

Ken Ham is the one and only infallible person on earth, it seems, and as he said to Bill Nye, nothing could possibly change his mind either.

And here we have Jonathan McLatchie, who personally distanced himself from something he wrote in his uninformed youth for "EvolutionNews", who never took his article down. https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/from-jonathan-mclatchie-search-for-adam.html

Then there is creationist Todd Wood, pointing out the problems with an article by Yingguang Liu and Charles Soper. https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/the-natural-history-of-retroviruses.html



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I post to many groups that discuss science, theology and creationism. Facebook's pompously called "Community  Standards" (we are not a community - just a bunch of users) do not specify how many groups anyone can post the same post to. You can't expect Facebook to keep track of whether a particular post has already been posted to any given user, so posting to all relevant groups is the only way to reach all potentially interested users. They don't all belong to all groups. Nor does Facebook specify the frequency with which you can post to their site. You just mustn't post "too fast"!

Nevertheless you can be blocked for "posting too fast" or for "spamming". Facebook never explains what their problem is. I sometimes think that the algorithms are there, but there's nobody home.

I'm not promoting myself. I am promoting knowledge and reason. Occasionally, I will mention by a link to, or quote from, a relevant book or article, but I never post for personal gain.

I often paste the contents of my own pages into Facebook, or link to them. This is no more self promotion than my or anyone else's Facebook comments, nor am I promoting posts from for-profit commercial creationist blogs such as Answers in Genesis, and Creation dot Com etc., as many posters do.

The use of uniform resource locators, or "URLs", or "links" is an integral part of the hypertext markup language (HTML). The idea is to prevent repetition of content and to conveniently communicate the location of the content. There is nothing inherently "spammy" about URLs and their use.

Facebook's facilities are so primitive compared with others and material is often better suited to being produced elsewhere and then linked to. 

Do not abuse the reporting system by whining about "spam" when it is obviously not spam. If there is anything that you have an issue with, take it up with the poster, and if you are unhappy with doing that, you can always block them.