Oops: Creationist digs up 60 million year old fossil in basement — but still says Earth is 6,000 years old

I've seen this mentioned elsewhere, that engineers tend to skew more religious. I think it makes sense.

This bizarre talking down to religious people is getting more and more common. The only speech I've seen of Neil DeGrasse Tyson was telling. He spends a few minutes talking about how Isaac Newton is his favorite scientist, but mentions how things that Newton didn't understand he just said God took care of, and then transitions into how religious people say whatever they don't understand just say 'God did that', the tired 'god of the gaps' argument, and how that belief has no place in science, so religious people can do other things in society, but they can't have a place in science. Besides his argument being illogical, the tone he used was really dismissive. Meanwhile, he neglected to mention that Isaac Newton had more religious writings than he did scientific ones, yet he was still able to use his curiosity to ascertain scientific principles. Saying the parts he didn't understand were just things God was taking care of doesn't make sense when you take one step back and remember that Newton thought God created everything. Newton wasn't saying that anything God created man should not try to understand, but rather the things we do not understand, we know may have a way to be understood, since they were created by a Creator, they weren't left up to random chance but to God. That goes back to the point about engineers and them responding to evidence of a creator when examining nature that has, at least, the appearance of being created. It's this really weird behavior of looking down their noses at these 'backwards' people that cling to their 'superstitions' and how they 'take off their thinking cap' when they leave work.

It's totally offensive to demean people this way because you disagree with their beliefs, but it is widely accepted.

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