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You describe me¹ as adopting voluntary stupidity. Could you give me some pointers as to where I'm being stupid. When you say "I am a man of faith", followed by

You describe me¹ as adopting voluntary stupidity. Could you give me some pointers as to where I'm being stupid. When you say "I am a man of faith", followed by "I find macroevolution to be too large a leap based on the evidence I've seen," you're demonstrating that you hold an inconsistent worldview. You demand an arbitrary, apparently-unmeetable standard of "evidence" from your biology teacher, while giving your anecdotal, irreproducible, and wholly subjective experience of "God" a free pass. That's stupid. However, your writing doesn't suggest any innate cognitive handicaps. That's why I'm assuming the stupidity you exhibited above is voluntary. It's something you could overcome with education and disciplined thinking, if you wanted to.

pbhjpbhj 17y ago
giving your anecdotal, irreproducible, and wholly subjective experience of "God" a free pass I only give my experience of God the same free pass as I give my experience of reality. Yes it's subjective. Has anything ever happened to you that you mentioned to someone and they simply said "don't believe you"? For example I met Tony Blair on the beach once and my flatmates didn't believe me - hardly an impossible scenario - as it is communicating other experiences. For some reason we don't each recognise our experience of God or experience Him as directly. I don't think my standards for biological evidence of macro-evolution are impossible to meet.