Good point, FunkyD.
This discussion reminds me of two meetings that I had with a few elders and the CO once they realized I wasn't attending meetings and was not likely to come back (they were about 5 years too late in calling on me).
But I digress. My point is that I explained to them all of the evidence I'd gathered that made it clear humans had been around a lot longer than 6,000 years, that there could not have been a flood as described in the Bible, that animals have been eating each other forever and not just for the past 4,000 years, etc. etc. One elder, who has a degree in engineering, said that that was why he didn't read science anymore, because he was afraid it would destroy his faith.
Most of the other elders said that they "could think of explanations" that would satisfy them about these things. I explained to them that simply coming up with a "possible explanation" is no good if that explanation has no evidence supporting it. Without evidence its mainly just nonsense. And of course the comeback is that the "evidence" just hasn't been "found" yet, when in reality it is simply that no such evidence exists. Metatron in another thread wrote "When logic is abandoned, anything is possible." SO true.
Which brings me to another thought. We live in a culture which does not like any kind of hierarchical thinking, ie: that this is better than that. But in truth, while we all have the right to think what we want, it by no means follows that therefore everything that everyone thinks is of equal value. There is simply just a lot of junk thought and junk ideas out there. Some ideas are just better than other ideas.
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