Future of Christianity in US

[JonDarbyXIII]

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He may be intelligent; he may have an extensive education; but he is not educated.

How do you define educated? Maybe you mean he didn't apply critical thinking to his beliefs? Or maybe you mean his education wasn't relevant to evaluating his beliefs? (There are lots of areas of learning.)

Certainly an education is not always relevant to beliefs. I have heard theists and atheists alike note that someone may have a PhD, but that doesn't mean they know anything more than the average person about any subject that is outside of that field (and often a very specified point on which they wrote their dissertation.)

When I said someone can have an extensive education but still not be educated, I mean more along the lines that someone can sit in any number of classrooms and still not have an 'education.' There are schools that are specifically geared towards teaching Intelligent Design (Creationism-lite) at the expense of evolution. I don't think these people are really educating themselves. Plus, even if they go to a school that does teach true science, there is no guarantee that they are absorbing the material for a longer duration than the class period or that they were applying those much-needed critical thinking skills.