Talk Origin & Evolution - Deception By Omission

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The Talk Origins Website is promoted, among other things, as an educational site, a place for obtaining information on evolution and aswers to the numerous criticisms to this theory. Although TO states that it is a "forum for discussion" - presumably unbiased - much evidence testifies to the contrary.I've been observing the TO site from the sidelines for quite some time and have until now restrained myself from responding to the materialstic worldview that this organization pushes on the unsuspectiong. It is particularly distressing to me to read the feedback letters from you people and watching thos impressionalbe minds being manipulated through TO indctrination TO states that in their group they also have Christian and other religious evolutionists - people that believe in God, believe in a creation by a deity, but also believe in evolution (ie. middle-grounders) To employs this strategy to give its visitors a sense of universal appeal, i.e that anyone, regardless of their beliefs, may subscribe to evolution. But what evolution are they referring to? The one that says "things change" (this is science), or the one that says "that's how everything came to be (this transcends science and is philosphical naturalism - a metaphysical position)? TO uses the two interchangeably. Yet, ayone who knows the score realizes that middle - grounders are at best marginally tolerated by 'pure-blood naturalists - as these say. "the hypothesis of God is unnecessary!" Why, then do the pure[bloods tolerate these naturlistic 'misfits'? There are probably many answers to this question but two are worth briefly mentioning: 'divide and conquer' and 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend.' Thus, naturalists welcome whatever sows dissension among creationists and, therefore, anyone disagreeing with the fundamentalist Christian position in any way while accepting any part of the the evolutionary doctrine is embraced by them (at least for now). TO promotes the view that the creation-evolution controversy is a war of 'religion versus science'- 'emotion versus reason.' This view is held mostly out of ignorance, but there are undoubtedly those within the TO organization that understand the matter will enough to know better. However, TO does very little to educate its audience on the philosophical foundation of its position. This is deception by omission - Taken from Trueorigin.org - a site which scientifically challenges Talk Orign on numerous topics