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>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
Behalf Of Dick Fischer
>Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 5:54 PM
>To: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Unwillingness to listen
>Michael Roberts wrote
>
> Can anyone explain to me why creationists are not willing to listen to
the
>clear arguments?
Having jumped back onto the list today, I am jumping into the middle of
this, but that won't stop me. As a former young-earth creationist of some
infamy, I can tell you why I didn't listen. I placed my interpretation of
the Bible as the utmost metaphysical truth. By doing that, all contradictory
data simply had to be wrong. Thus when faced with clear evidence and logic
that my viewpoint was wrong, I did the only reasonable thing--I ignored the
data or assumed that there was some way to discount and ignore it. There was
also an emotional reason not to listen to contradictory arguments. They
challenged my world view and made me extremely uncomfortable. Since I could
not doubt my ultimate metaphysical truth--the YEC paradigm without thinking
I would become an atheist which I didn't want to do--I would flee from the
truth.
That is the sad predicament that YECs are in. They are fleeing from the
truth, preferring darkness to the light.
glenn
see http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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