Theory of Everything (unifying faith and reason)

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(1st April 2012 03:57)popeyespappy Wrote:  This looks like a good place to stick this….

”Jerry Coyne” Wrote:If there’s anything I’ve learned from teaching evolution, is that resistance to evolution in America comes not from ignorance of the facts supporting the theory, but from entrenched religious belief that makes people closed to the facts. Coddling their religion won’t make them open to facts, but erasing their religion will.

A 2007 Gallup poll reported that 44% of Americans are young Earth creationists. That means that nearly half of all Americans reject science period in favor of a worldview invented by goat herders a couple thousand years ago, and here you are suggesting we search for a middle ground between their beliefs and ours.... Sorry but fuck that.

44%? Wow. I knew my countrymen were (edit-- mostly) morons, but I didn't think that so many of them believed in a young Earth.

But yes, to respond to the original post, if you believe religion to be rational, the part of your brain that deals with rational thinking is almost certainly handicapped. If it's by genetic defect or simple indoctrination, though, is impossible to say.