Okay then. After the multiple days of temoporary sittings that it took me to wade through this, I've come up with some questions.
Let me preface with that I don't think your characterization of belief in mythical answers really fits my own beliefs, but I'll have a go anyways.
Much more dangerous are those mysterious answers that sound like reasonable solutions. These are far more likely to be believed by even intelligent and rational people - they are intellectual traps. This encompasses such mysterious answers as "a deity guided evolution to result in humanity," or "the Grand Canyon was formed through erosion, like scientists say, but was actually formed rapidly by the waters of a global Flood as opposed to being cut from the rock slowly by a river over millions of years." These answers do not immediately sound mysterious, and to many people they sound perfectly credulous. They are, after all, offering what sounds like a "mechanism" in attributing a guiding force to evolution and specifying the specific cause of the erosion that formed the Grand Canyon. It is certainly conceivably possible that a deity could "guide" evolution, and to anyone without an education in hydrodynamics or geology, rock being eroded by moving water sounds like a lot more water moving much faster on a huge scale could cut a lot of rock much more quickly.
Where is the
danger here? And how is it
much more dangerous?
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Well shit, I can't find the quote I'm looking for, and I'm getting tired (maybe this is a good reason to not have so much text to dig through), but I don't think a mysterious answer necessarily halts all further questioning like you're protrary it as doing. Also, I don't hold my beliefs like you seem to think someone in my position does. E.g., I wouldn't say that god definately has a hand in evolution, but I would say that he
could have. My belief that he might, isn't an end-of-the-road. My belief that he did isn't held so positively.
Too, with things like beliefs in ghosts, we see these guys using EMF meters n'stuff so the mysterious answer of "it was a ghost" hasn't halted their further research, so... where does that fit in?
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