the Earth is 7000 years old—vidiot
l was a convert. If this had been put out front and center from the beginning l might not have gone in.
I remember confronting his understanding that the society had placed as the earth’s age in some publication after l had been in for a while. I worked hard to reconcile this with other science. Finally, I let myself suspend both belief and doubt by creating a “shelf” in my brain. This convenient arrangement allowed me to put problems of faith in closed boxes to be dealt with at a future date.
Opening those “boxes” meant leaving the bOrg. though l didn’t acknowledge it then.