RE: Believing in creationism is a sin
March 16, 2013 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2013 at 1:07 pm by jstrodel.)
Saying that it is wrong to teach creationism presupposes that the correspondent theory of truth is the sole means of determining whether something is true or not (or something similar to that). I am not a creationist, but I don't think that it is a sin to understand the world in terms of abstractions and simpler concepts.
In fact, when you study science, you find that many things in science do not actually exist as objects, they are just abstractions of things that exist. Such it is also with language and metaphysics. What really exists is very difficult to day. I think traditional Bible believers are entitled to their abstractions just as science is.
That said, I do not believe the earth is 6000-10000 years old. But I do not see any reason to understand the concept of truth as specially aimed at appreciating certain types of abstractions as being fallacious while other abstracts as being legitimate.
The reality is that people know very little about the world.
In fact, when you study science, you find that many things in science do not actually exist as objects, they are just abstractions of things that exist. Such it is also with language and metaphysics. What really exists is very difficult to day. I think traditional Bible believers are entitled to their abstractions just as science is.
That said, I do not believe the earth is 6000-10000 years old. But I do not see any reason to understand the concept of truth as specially aimed at appreciating certain types of abstractions as being fallacious while other abstracts as being legitimate.
The reality is that people know very little about the world.
