It's ridiculous that people fall for the Watchtower story at all, then again maybe it's not so surprising when you consider from whence we have come. A hundred years ago we were quaintly intellectual and just starting really to understand physics and science. There were horseless carriages, ocean liners and flying machines in those days, considered miracles of science and engineering. A couple hundred years before that we didn't even have the steam engine. Our intellectual evolution is growing exponentially. But we as a species go back hundreds of thousands of years. That's a whole lot of hard wired heritage to go through, and we still have a ways to go. How does a bronze-age story endure? Such remarkable persistence. If you compare absolute contexts - reality when the Bible was written and reality today - it's astonishing that anyone with a brain can buy into the Watchtower story, but it happens nevertheless. Happened to me, in fact. Maybe I don't have a brain, after all. Or didn't.
my .02