Excuse me, Travis: minor rant here. <Ahem> Many people of faith are actually quite capable of nuanced and informed thinking about the world. I've spent my entire adult life in university settings, hanging around humanists and scientists alike. I have met many highly educated seculars who are as just ignorant or closed-minded about religi…
Excuse me, Travis: minor rant here. <Ahem> Many people of faith are actually quite capable of nuanced and informed thinking about the world. I've spent my entire adult life in university settings, hanging around humanists and scientists alike. I have met many highly educated seculars who are as just ignorant or closed-minded about religion as some religious folks I know are about science. My husband is a geologist; we both have Ivy League degrees; we are both Christians. Please get over this notion that religious people have ipso facto given up their intellectual integrity. It's almost as bad as making demeaning generalizations about people on the basis of race or gender or class.
The difference between race and theology is that belief systems are a choice while things like skin color are not, so lets not make that false equivocation. If your husband is a geologist and *knows* how things like isotope dating work and still manages to square that circle with the objectively false claims of the bible, then that's straight up cognitive dissonance in my book.
Excuse me, Travis: minor rant here. <Ahem> Many people of faith are actually quite capable of nuanced and informed thinking about the world. I've spent my entire adult life in university settings, hanging around humanists and scientists alike. I have met many highly educated seculars who are as just ignorant or closed-minded about religion as some religious folks I know are about science. My husband is a geologist; we both have Ivy League degrees; we are both Christians. Please get over this notion that religious people have ipso facto given up their intellectual integrity. It's almost as bad as making demeaning generalizations about people on the basis of race or gender or class.
Thank you, I'll show myself out now.
The difference between race and theology is that belief systems are a choice while things like skin color are not, so lets not make that false equivocation. If your husband is a geologist and *knows* how things like isotope dating work and still manages to square that circle with the objectively false claims of the bible, then that's straight up cognitive dissonance in my book.