{"id":46735,"date":"2014-08-27T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46735"},"modified":"2014-08-28T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:50:37","slug":"pondering-the-imponderable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46735","title":{"rendered":"Pondering The Imponderable"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was at a comedy club a few weeks back.<\/p>\n

A very angry \u2013 and not especially funny, while we’re on the subject \u2013 woman who, I kid you not, identified herself as having been a political science major, told a joke (I’ll be generous) about “science”.\u00a0 She ended with something like “That’s called ‘science’.\u00a0 Take that<\/em>, creationists!”<\/p>\n

But it started me thinking about the contempt that the left feels for creationists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not one of them – if you read the biblical creation story as allegory, there is no conflict between the Bible and the record that is captured in the physical science of the world around us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And I wanted to stand up and ask the “comedian” something.<\/p>\n

“So if we have to choose between…<\/p>\n

Someone who believes the Earth is 6,000 years old<\/strong>, and lives their life accordingly – whatever that means?\u00a0 A belief for which\u00a0there may be\u00a0little empirical basis, and even less empirical impact outside the faith community?\u00a0 Or…<\/p>\n

Someone who\u00a0believes<\/strong> that:<\/p>\n