User talk:RedStar95

DS Alert
Jorm (talk) 08:01, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

July 2021
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Focus on the Family has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. The summaries are helpful to people browsing an article's history, so it is important that you use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did. Feel free to use the sandbox to make test edits. you didn't improve the word choice, you removed sourced text. Doug Weller  talk 15:20, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello Doug Weller, with grace I wish to explain why I made this particular edit last night. Focus on the Family is an organization that I personally hold in high regard and I believe the work they do is seriously needed in our society. I elected to remove the word “pseudoscience” because I felt that it unfairly made Focus on the Family look scientifically ignorant. I don’t subscribe to literal six 24-hour day young-earth creationism, and most of the materials I read by Focus on the Family does not promote this particular brand of creationism, but I do believe in intelligent design, and did not like the way it appeared to be dismissed in its entirety by the word “pseudoscience” which I felt wasn’t fair and this is why I chose to remove that word. RedStar95 (talk) 17:06, 27 July 2021 (UTC)


 * A fun thing about Wikipedia (and reality in general) is that it doesn't care what your personal opinion about the subject matter is; it cares about what is real and verifiable. Since, uh, all creation myths are just that - myths - and thus pseudoscience, it's going to be a very difficult process for you to get that word removed.
 * If you think that Focus of the Family looks "scientifically ignorant" because of the beliefs they espouse, that is because those beliefs are, indeed, scientifically ignorant. Jorm (talk) 17:27, 27 July 2021 (UTC)

My mind remains unchanged, but if you want to change the text back to how it was before, I will not bother arguing. RedStar95 (talk) 20:58, 27 July 2021 (UTC)