---In [email protected], <jr_esq@...> wrote:
Share,
It's hard to fathom. But there are many intelligent fundamentalist Christians
who believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old. And they believe in the
literal interpretation of the Old and New Testament.
I would really have to reevaluate the meaning of the word "intelligent" then,
John. Truly, how could one possibly see someone as "intelligent" on a level
that matters if they believe this kind of thing. Intelligence surely needs to
include an ability to reason, to understand history and evolution and to grasp
in some way the rudimentary principles of science and geology and biology (to
list two fields out of a number of them) that might be able to shed some light
on why and how the world is not 6,000 years old. I would really question the
intelligence of anyone who refuses to open their minds up to bigger
possibilities that perhaps go against their hard-held beliefs. One is not
intelligent if one is closed or unwilling to entertain alternate explanations
or ideas.
