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A couple of weeks ago I read a thread where two people were really going at each other .. one was a creationalist, the other had a lot of scientific knowledge and moulded his beliefs around that. I thought it was going to be really interesting .. well, it was .. but mainly for the way they quickly turned into a really nasty personal argument with both people cussing the other person and their ideas out. The argument, on both sides, got stuck in the there's no proof/it's just theory/ supposition/anecdotal/hearsay mode because neither person would move on from there and it got really personal instead of talking about what they knew .. and this just went on and on and on.

I don't think either was doing it because they enjoyed doing it and were just using the discussion as an excuse to become abusive because I think, here. they did both believe what they were saying though neither seemed aware that becoming personal in that way wasn't doing what they were trying to get over any good.

Don't think either of them were drunk either. It was strange watching the discussion deteriorate into what it did so quickly so did cross my mind as, on the net, you've plenty of time to decide whether you're going to post what you've just written.