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Originally Posted by Willravel
He's been ill-educated by his church. I'd argue, on the issue of creationism/evolution, he's less properly educated than the majority of people that have posted in this thread.
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Why you think is only a matter of education? Why your values are better then theirs?
He knows his deals about evolution and genetics, probably more then any graduate-degree science student. He knows the theories, the experimental proofs better then you can read at any divulgative-level Dawkin's book.
Hell: we are scientist, common people to get the answer google up and read the sketches of the simplification of what another people told them about a scientific article and call themselfs "educated", we read the article and watches the references say ourself "so much to learn, so little time". (only joking)
Just because he is in fact so well educted that cannot accept science-thruth as the only possible thruth and in particular evolution as scientifically demonstrated and verifiable such as benefits of liver transplants or theory of relativity.
In fact for the well used Popper-ian epistemology theory of evolution isn't in fact a science because is verifiable (and also at this there are doubts) but not falsificable...
If I must be sincere, this creationist professor was MUCH MUCH more scientifically precise than you talking about evolution so I cannot accept your second statement.
Ill-educted by church? Possible, but in Poland there wasn't much space for church back in the old day of URRS* and in the hard edge post-war/cold-war communism.
Anyway it doesn't mean so much: I was a catholic cathechist now I am an atheist scientist, because I've learned, thinked and readed so much, and I feel the scientific thruth more elegant and complete then the religious one, so making me happier, and I simply changed point of view.
For example what changed my view of realty and metaphysics forever, slowing twisting me from a christian with "some" doubts to an atheist, is the deep understanding of quantum mechanics, thing that most atheist (or pretending so) cannot even imagine.
That professor surely learned, thinked and readed as much (and surely more then) me (and I think also you), and choose with all the possible awareness (and I think more then most) that christian reality make HIM happier.
The important thing is not to found a belief on prejudice (as you are doing now) and ignorance (as many creationist do).
You must fight both ignorance (teaching science and evolutionism more deeply as you can) and prejudice. The latter is harder to be teached, but consist not pretending that your point of view is the only possible right one.
*EDIT: Pardon me. URRS is an Italian Term, I meant Soviet Union...