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user-inactivated  ·  4008 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: List of scientists who became creationists after studying the evidence

One of my closest friends, a reasonably intelligent person with a college education, is a creationist solely (as far as I can tell) because he was raised as one. I'm not sure if he's just too lazy to challenge his own beliefs, and I haven't actually talked to him about this in a long time so maybe he has by now. When we did talk about it, my basic scientific evidence was met with platitudes and the word 'faith'. I don't particularly care what he thinks and those sorts of conversations are a waste of time, so I dropped it pretty quickly.

The real crime is that parents begin their children on religion at the same age they begin them on fairy tales. That should tell us something.