1) I do think it stunts intellect to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that the world was created in a few days. Believing that seven days is a symbolic way of representing a much longer time frame, however, is a totally different thing. It's accepting an element of myth in the story that is not present in a literal interpretation.
2) By "creationists," I don't mean people who believe God created. There are days when I believe that myself. I mean people who attempt to find scientific "proof" that a literal, six-day creation story is the correct one, especially since most of them have to throw out much better science in order to find that "proof."
3) Most people who espouse a young-earth creationism are going to come in for some of that scorn, unless they've never been exposed to any other possibilities. The ones who run websites and create homeschool or private school curricula, the ones who spend their time tearing down good science and slandering good scientists - those ones come in for a lot more of it.
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Date: 2008-07-08 06:57 pm (UTC)2) By "creationists," I don't mean people who believe God created. There are days when I believe that myself. I mean people who attempt to find scientific "proof" that a literal, six-day creation story is the correct one, especially since most of them have to throw out much better science in order to find that "proof."
3) Most people who espouse a young-earth creationism are going to come in for some of that scorn, unless they've never been exposed to any other possibilities. The ones who run websites and create homeschool or private school curricula, the ones who spend their time tearing down good science and slandering good scientists - those ones come in for a lot more of it.