cognitive dissonance is not directly related to intellect.
I understand why you reject all the evidence. I once did myself. I am just amazed at how powerful that faith can be; even among extremely intelligent individuals. Because it is not just belief without evidence, but belief despite evidence to the contrary.
It was not meant to be an insult. Though I understand why you would see it that way.
Unlike most of his ilk, KWCrazy helpfully undermines his position by directly describing his "logic" and presuppositions without our having to read between the lines. He openly illustrates what most traditionalist Young Earth Creationists depend upon to protect their minds from information which might lead to painful reconsiderations of position:
1)
When the scientific evidence is incontrovertible, not only DENY that evidence but tell everyone with a straight face that science has conclusively demonstrated the OPPOSITE.
2) Even though centuries of Bible-believing Christians have come to OTHER conclusions about various Genesis texts---equally LITERAL interpretations, in fact---
pretend that (a) "God speaks only to me/us" and therefore (b) my favorite traditional interpretation and that of my sect is what the text must mean.
3) Always depend upon one's favorite ENGLISH Bible translation (especially one that is over 400 years old if that helps one's sect) so that one can pretend that the complexities and ambiguities of the original Hebrew text [which each Bible translation tries to resolve in particular conclusive way so that the English reader doesn't have to notice the various possible translation alternatives] don't exist. Thus, one need not worry about YOM having a wide range of possible translations because one's favorite Bible version renders it with the word "day" and generations of pastors have convinced their followers that "24-hour day" is the only possibility----even though "the evening and the morning were the Nth YOM" describes the span of one NIGHT, not a 24 hour day.
Always conveniently ignore centuries of debate on such annoying problems. "My view is the only one that matters. And it is true because I say so---and I say so because God says so."
4)
When one's atrocious logic gaffes are pointed out, pretend they don't exist and reply with the decisive, "No, YOU are the illogical one and have no evidence!" Other creationists will be impressed by your appearance of confidence in "standing up against the atheists" (even though the opponents include countless Bible-affirming Christ-followers, and theists and agnostics of every stripe with only a few percent of the population being the atheists one obsesses about.)
5)
Convince yourself that because "eternal stakes" are in play, honesty about evidence and the positions of scientists is unimportant.
6)
Convince yourself that faith in one's favorite TRADITIONS are the same as faith in God and the Bible. "I speak for God!" will always tend to impress those who know nothing about the scriptural evidence and the scientific evidence but who believe that whoever happens to mention God the most is likely on the "right side" of any debate.
So keep in mind that KWCrazy's posts will never make any sense to those who are focused on evidence, science, what the Bible actually says (and doesn't say), and who wish to learn from these discussions. He only has to encourage "the choir" and, most of all, himself. His posts are the equivalent of the loud "la-la-la" while one's ears are covered: the verbiage doesn't have to make any sense; it only has to drown out any other words which might threaten the cherished traditions which must be preserved at all costs.
When I was still teaching undergrads who were getting their divisional requirements and electives (so they weren't science majors or religious studies/theology majors),
I heard first-hand from the many young people raised in die-hard Young Earth Creationist environments and then had to deal with unfiltered FACTUAL evidence (from both science and scripture) without anyone demanding that they personally adopt ANY particular position. One student said to me, "My pastor frenetically warned all of us in the church youth group that our university professors would all be engaged in a devious plot to turn us into atheists.
Instead, I feel like I've arrived at the front lines only to find that there's no war going on except in the minds of a lot of church leaders who've never experienced life on a major university campus." But more striking was this: "After I read Francis Collins on DNA as the language of God and how evolution poses no threat to the Bible, I realized that I was still in a crisis of faith but it had nothing to do with atheist-professors attacking me or lists of scientific facts which supposedly deny the Bible. No, I shaken by the fact that my Christian heroes had lied to me---not only about the evidence for deep time and evolutionary processes which we can clearly observe in creation all around us, but they lied and confused me about what the Bible does and doesn't say." And one such student well reflected my own fork in the road when faced by the "Lying for Jesus" crisis in my own life: How do we go about "starting over again" in reading the Bible and trying to put aside the TRADITIONS which we are so accustomed to INSERTING in the Biblical text?
As several described it in the
http://www.christianforums.com/t7706077/ thread, the DISHONESTY of a great many creationist mega-ministries and their leaders has no doubt spawned and encouraged far more atheism than Richard Dawkins could ever hope to promote.
And the ethical failures in terms of dishonest quote-mines, lying about the scientific and scriptural evidence, and the misrepresentation of even basic scientific terminology when I was part of the Young Earth Creationist speaker's circuit in the 1960's and 1970's was a mere whisp and footnote in comparison to the wholesale deception and "Lying for Jesus" propaganda machine that we observe in the YEC mega-ministry world today. KWcrazy is hardly atypical. Yes, his openness makes the tactics all the easier to spot but his brash openness in his in-your-face, evidence-doesn't-matter, make-it-up-as-you-go-along pseudo-science and pseudo-hermeneutics firehose is not at all atypical in strategy.
