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If you choose creationism, you also choose the existence of a creator. A great many people who hold this belief seem to base many decisions in their lives on wh
by EliRivers 13y ago
If you choose creationism, you also choose the existence of a creator. A great many people who hold this belief seem to base many decisions in their lives on what this creator would want them to do (or at least, say they do). This can be a very, very long way from "zero practical impact on their lives".
- waterlesscloud 13y agoYou've made several leaps that do not necessarily follow.
- EliRivers 13y agoYes I have. Nonetheless, given the number of people who subscribe to creationism and yet do not hold any religious views (vanishingly small in my sampling, but I haven't conducted a large-scale international review), whilst they do not have to follow, they do seem to follow in the vast majority of cases.
- dennisgorelik 13y agoCould you give an example of practical impact on life of person who chose to believe in creationism?
- EliRivers 13y agoA literal belief in fairy tales leading to them making major life decisions based on the collected, millennia-old edited ramblings of a desert tribe. Start with lynching witches and go from there.