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Interesting article on the 'deconversion' of a Young-Earth creationist
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<blockquote data-quote="pitabread" data-source="post: 73974341" data-attributes="member: 394892"><p><a href="https://medium.com/swlh/path-across-the-stars-e8dbf93e4405" target="_blank"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px">Path Across the Stars</span></strong></a></p><p></p><p>The was linked from the Panda's Thumb a few days ago. It's a well written and fascinating account of a young-Earth creationist who eventually was confronted with astronomical phenomena that they couldn't put into a YEC framework.</p><p></p><p>A few points that stood out to me from this article included this commentary on professional creationist organizations:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>In <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/we_believe_in_dinosaurs" target="_blank">We Believe In Dinosaurs</a>, Ken Ham is caught on film saying, “You should listen to our PhD experts talk, even though you won’t be able to understand anything they say,” and his slip keenly illustrates the underlying strategy of the movement. Creationism doesn’t have to prove anything; it only has to maintain a veneer of scientific respectability. Their goal is control, abusing science to safeguard their authority. As long as they can maintain that their pseudoscience is “just as plausible” as the mainstream alternative, their power to interpret Scripture unchallenged remains protected.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p><p>This comment on the sciences:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>As the years passed, I spent more and more time reading everything I could about geology, biology, and astrophysics. My limit for inter-library loans was always full. I was looking for a pattern, a reason why astronomy and geology and evolutionary biology seemed to be so good at making predictions and lined up so well with other areas of science.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p><p>And finally this comment on the deconversion from creationism:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>My deconversion from creationism was the result of years of learning new information and exposing myself to different ideas.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p><p>The aricle is a good read and I highly recommend it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pitabread, post: 73974341, member: 394892"] [URL='https://medium.com/swlh/path-across-the-stars-e8dbf93e4405'][B][SIZE=5]Path Across the Stars[/SIZE][/B][/URL] The was linked from the Panda's Thumb a few days ago. It's a well written and fascinating account of a young-Earth creationist who eventually was confronted with astronomical phenomena that they couldn't put into a YEC framework. A few points that stood out to me from this article included this commentary on professional creationist organizations: [INDENT][I]In [URL='https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/we_believe_in_dinosaurs']We Believe In Dinosaurs[/URL], Ken Ham is caught on film saying, “You should listen to our PhD experts talk, even though you won’t be able to understand anything they say,” and his slip keenly illustrates the underlying strategy of the movement. Creationism doesn’t have to prove anything; it only has to maintain a veneer of scientific respectability. Their goal is control, abusing science to safeguard their authority. As long as they can maintain that their pseudoscience is “just as plausible” as the mainstream alternative, their power to interpret Scripture unchallenged remains protected. [/I][/INDENT] This comment on the sciences: [INDENT][I] As the years passed, I spent more and more time reading everything I could about geology, biology, and astrophysics. My limit for inter-library loans was always full. I was looking for a pattern, a reason why astronomy and geology and evolutionary biology seemed to be so good at making predictions and lined up so well with other areas of science. [/I][/INDENT] And finally this comment on the deconversion from creationism: [INDENT][I]My deconversion from creationism was the result of years of learning new information and exposing myself to different ideas. [/I][/INDENT] The aricle is a good read and I highly recommend it. [/QUOTE]
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