Posted: Oct 06, 2010 5:03 am
trubble76 wrote:I was pleased to see a long list of intelligent comments on the page linked to in the OP. The creationist posts were easy to spot as they were the ones with no (at least not in the correct places) punctuation or capitilisation, or even any content beyond that of a young child with learning disabilities.
More and more, I'm getting the impression that these creationist types actually want to be ignorant, rather than being unfortunately and accidentally ignorant.
Here's my favorite part:some creationist moron wrote:If the earth is millions of years old, why aren't the oceans full of salt?
Their religious teaching actively encourages ignorance:
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
1 Timothy 6:4:...he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions 5and constant friction between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
1 Timothy 6:20 Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge
This is why the children of believers are not encouraged to study anything other than theology, or possibly medicine, law and so on, i.e. nothing that will allow them to find fault with the religion. That's why there are few religious historians, psychologists (especially psychology), philosophers and when they do study science, they won't support any science that argues against the religious belief.