Comment on Steelmanning Young Earth Creationism

Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:21:26 GMT

(a) Outside reason: no one remotely smart agrees.

Actually, I wouldn't say that this is correct. Ken Ham, the founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Musem, I would say is considerably smarter than the great majority of the population.

In that light, Young Earth Creationism makes a somewhat interesting case study in how wrong fairly intelligent people can be given enough motivated reasoning.

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