# Comments about "The Great Debates" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 28, 2012, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-about-the-great-debates/610959 "2012-01-28T05:58:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-about-the-great-debates/610959/17 "2012-01-29T09:25:28Z")
> [@SDMBKL](#): > > If people come in and say that they believe in God, Bigfoot, ghosts, NDEs, YEC, and other notions that seem to defy logic and/or science, then it is best to give them some respect for those beliefs (no matter how counter-intuitive and disagreeable they might be). People believe in strange things for apparently no reason; just give them some respect as long as the belief is harmless. Such a belief in imaginary things is harmless, so why would you even consider criticism? If you really believe that they are false, then ignore them; don’t question them and say in their face, “OMG! You are lying!” or “OMG! Where did you get your info? I need a cite!” Also, note that not everything can be proved to science and those that cannot be proved by science and is harmless should be respected. I’ve said this a few times before to people that have tried the same argument: The last time I checked, the words under THE STRAIGHT DOPE banner at the top of the page didn’t read “Whatever dude-it’s all cool”. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comments-about-the-great-debates/610959)._