It’s like watching toothless dogs fight …

I recall early in my academic career one of my adjunct supervisors preparing me for what was going to be an uncomfortable presentation (I had to speak to a group of scientists who would strongly disagree with what we were examining). He used the following similie to try to prepare me for what was going to happen:

You don’t need to worry, as this is going to be a lot like being attacked by a toothless dog. There’s going to be a lot of fury and yapping, but at the end of the day, all you’ll have is some saliva on your pant leg.

Those words have stuck with me over the years, and they bubbled to the surface of my consciousness as I read the following exchange between two young-earth creationist cooks.

(Via this DKos post.)

Technorati Tags:
science, creation, evolution