Well, you will note that I said remind *everyone*.
> They make take offense, but I would stand by my view that their belief is
> not in accordance with the evidence. Surely you are not suggesting that a
> Ph.D. in physics can rationally hold that "every word of the Old Testament
> is unvarnished and unmetaphorical fact"? The Earth is only a few thousand
> years old? God created Adam and Eve and there was no evolution. Such a
> physics Ph.D. would have a faith in both senses of the term -- a belief in
> a doctrine, and a belief insensitive to evidence.
Actually, he believes that the Universe is several billion years old depending
on Hubble constant, and that evolution is obviously the explanation for all
human biology. In fact, he has exactly your attitude towards creationists who
make up elaborate reasons why evolution has some tiny flaw.
Again, there are minds that think as well as you do, only differently.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
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