The Uncommon Descent blog asks why so many skeptics of Darwinian evolution tend to be mathematicians, engineers and people qualified in similar fields. Finally, at least they are asking the right questions – at least implicitly, the question recognizes that biologists aren’t skeptical, and that those who lead the antievolution campaigns aren’t biologists.
The answer is simple: because they aren’t biologists. All they need to do is study biology at university level. Young-earth creationists created their own schools because those who went to genuine university biology departments lost their young-earth convictions in the process.
In other words, the whole situation is those who don’t understand a subject being skeptical of it but unwilling to get the education they would need to deal with the misunderstandings and incomplete knowledge that are at the heart of their skepticism.
I would challenge any young-earth creationist or cdesign proponentsists to actually go get a degree in biology (and for YECs, geology would perhaps be an even better choice). If, in the end, you have the same skepticism, I will give you a serious hearing. But to implicitly acknowledge that it is your lack of expertise in the relevant discipline that is at the heart of the matter, and to do nothing to rectify the situation, shows the real problem is one the Bible also addresses: you young-earth creationists and cdesign proponentsists are a stubborn, stiff-necked, hard-hearted people. The answer is staring you in the face, but you refuse to see it, because you are more interested in having what you already believe be the right answer, than finding the actual right answer.
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