It is not about what Science is or isn’t by its definition, but rather how the online arguments are identical in form to the religious arguments against the atheist.
That was my experience as well, although I didn’t get banned, but was warned that if I kept arguing, I would be banned. Doc Al is the most obvious culprit. When he enters a thread, once he gets tired of arguing, regardless of how many others might want to continue (as one stated to me on my thread), he just locks the thread and/or bans the person. Its a little hard to tell for sure whether it is due to him sensing that he is about to lose or he just feels that the site is only there for him so when he is tired, he just shuts it down (narcissism).
Again, many other smaller religious sites do that quite often.
No, that is what you first merely asserted, no argument. And that is why I first thought you were going to follow that train of logic, so I asked you to explain why you thought that and gave a little of why I thought it would have to be so (should have been enough of a clue). But the only argument you could give was that your holy scriptures proclaimed it and I should go drink the coolaid and come back when I could see your colored lights. I began to propose my version of why they had to be in sync when you came up with the absurd notion that the reason your chemistry class experiment got different results than the others was because their desks were in a different locations in the room. With THAT, you proved with certainty that you have no idea what the reasoning behind relativity of simultaneity actually is.
I asked you to show me exactly what you think Einstein said that led you to believe such an absurd idea. And exactly like a Bible literalist, you quoted an out of context verse that you misunderstood to mean that no two events could never be in sync if they are separated by any distance or time, “spacetime”. That is not what he meant by what he was saying in your quote. And frankly even if it was, merely by trying to apply his equations to the scenario, you would discover that your version could not be correct. As Carleas pointed out, the point to discussion is to get into the reasoning of what you believe, not merely quote passages and attempt to condemn the unbelievers.
After that point any arguing with you was obviously going to be pointless. I asked you to show your math/logic. You apparently couldn’t, just as I confidently suspected. You had merely memorized certain ideas that you misunderstood and some equations that you have plugged in to some prepared homework problems and thought you actually knew something. Calrid and Xunzian had to come and help you try to save face, again merely defending the realm with attempts at slander and obfuscation.
If you seriously want to continue that debate in a civil manner, I suggest that you find the real math/logic that leads up to the conclusion that you suggest without merely quoting your scriptures, because you misunderstand what you have memorized (religious people do that a lot). If you follow them accurately, I won’t have to say much more, if anything at all.
If you are going to drink the coolaid and pass it around, find out what is in it.