It looks like a period and then a colon, unless I'm mistaken. .:

Yeah, that was Kant.

That statement is technically correct.

You know countries don't think, right?

"...even if you want to play with people..."

Actually, the first thing the government did was make a device that makes you think that.

I thought I didn't believe in souls before reading this article, and yet I still found it existentially terrifying.

I went to Narnia.

The entire internet? Damn, I'm honored.

I CANT SPELL OKAY I HAVE TEH CONDITION TAHT MAKES MY WORDS MIX UP LETTESR

Mistake?

In accordance with the Federal Conspiracy Enforcement Act, I must ask you to stop poking around behind the curtain before we're forced to shoot you.

I see no reason to doubt your claim of reasonableness, and it is in no way contradicted by your actions.

I agree with you that altering of opinion ought to (as opposed to "necessarily will") take place, but in answering your original question I was noting that the defensiveness does exist and proposing a hypothesis for it. In this case, while I don't think the defensive posture is necessarily unchangeable, I do think it…

I don't mean to say that people, fundamentalist or otherwise, can't form their own opinions, but I think it's fair to say that opinions don't come out of nowhere. You start from a certain set of suppositions and a certain posture.

The Garden of Eden section of Genesis claims that there wasn't any death until Adam and Eve sinned. Consequently, the existence of carnivores pre-sin would be a major plot hole.

Do you see this, sir?! I am outraged! Outraged, I say!

YEC is usually found in fundamentalist, charismatic traditions. These are the same traditions that tend to believe that Satan is out in the world working mischief—hence the defensive attitude.

I get what you're saying, but by that logic we'd have to accept human rights violations in order to benefit from the sweatshops that produce all this wonderful scientific stuff.

To be fair, you have to be taught to challenge your assumptions and no one's told them they have to do it.