Somewhat OT, but some might be interested:
Creation “scientists” often appear to be against discussion. Recently the Institute for Creation Research set up a set of discussion boards. (There appears to be no link from the main page). On June 26 of this year their terms and conditions included:
"ICR’s discussion forum is primarily intended for young earth creationists to discuss matters, ask questions, find people with similar interests, etc. ICR welcomes others with serious questions that are asked in good faith. This is not a debate forum. Please go to Yahoo and use their advanced search function, and you can find plenty of places to debate. By registering, you agree that you are either a young earth creationist or someone with a serious question.
Any questions, comments, etc. that are derogatory or inflammatory in nature towards ICR or other posters will be deleted and the offending poster will be banned. …"
And, of course, a clause that their moderators could edit messages.
Around that time a self-professed young Christian female, a college student in one of the biological sciences, posted several questions about “creation science” to talk.origins (using the handle “Diamond Dust”). She appeared to making an honest effort to reconcile her faith with the evidence that she was seeing. A creationist refered her to the ICR discussions.
She posted a message asking how to reconcile the observations of objects millions of light years away with a young Universe. Her post was edited to say something completely different, and her account was deleted.
A talk.origins regular repeated the experiment, posting:
“Could someone tell me how we can see objects millions of light-years away if the universe were created less than 10,000 years ago.”
Within an hour, his message was edited to say:
“Has anybody checked out Dr. Humphrey’s latest article here? It is about the last seven years of starlight and time. It has related links on Russ and all the debates from AIG’s tech journal. It is pretty awesome. He even has a video called Starlight and Time as well.”
and his account was deleted. (See this thread at Google).
Around the same time, the terms and conditions at the ICR site changed to:
“ICR’s discussion forum is intended for young earth creationists to discuss matters, ask questions, find people with similar interests, etc. This is not a debate forum. Please go to Yahoo and use their advanced search function, and you can find plenty of places to debate. By registering, you agree that you are a young earth creationist.”
I guess serious questions aren’t allowed. There are some who feel that the amount of editing that took place was actionable.