Future of Christianity in US

[watchamadoodle]

It's rather shocking to see someone with a biology degree from such a good university not really care about or understand evolution. I'd be interested to know if she went to MIT with her pre-drawn conclusions about evolution (from her church most likely).

I would say, yes my sister probably had pre-drawn conclusions against evolution when she went to MIT, because she was a Christian. When Christians say they believe in evolution, they probably really mean they believe in intelligent design through a process mimicking evolution (the noodly appendage of the flying spaghetti monster orchestrating the mutations). That is what I believed when I was a Christian, so I assume she might believe similarly. Now my sister is an MD, so she is very busy and focused on that. Her previous boyfriend was the son of a pastor, and her current husband is a Christian, so that probably helped keep her in the fold.

I don't know if you have ever been a Christian, but cognitive dissonance makes it possible to think you believe all kinds of crazy things without confronting the contradictions.