..."Kurt Wise doesn’t need the challenge; he volunteers that, even if all the evidence in the universe flatly contradicted Scripture, and even if he had reached the point of admitting this to himself, he would still take his stand on Scripture and deny the evidence. This leaves me, as a scientist, speechless. I cannot imagine what it must be like to have a mind capable of such doublethink.
It reminds me of Winston Smith in 1984 struggling to believe that two plus two equals five if Big Brother said so. But that was fiction and, anyway, Winston was tortured into submission. Kurt Wise—and presumably others like him who are less candid—has suffered no such physical coercion. But, as I hinted at the end of my previous column, I do wonder whether childhood indoctrination could wreak a sufficiently powerful brainwashing effect to account for this bizarre phenomenon"....
Wonder if the author has reviewed the teaching in our schools lately....2 + 2 can be anything so long as the child feels good--he or she will learn at some later point in life that the answer is 4....another godless phenomena from the 'enlightened' ones. And, of course, there are still enough parents who wouldn't stand for their children to be tortured--yet!
This is why the Creationists are natural allies to the post-modern-deconstructionists. Both deny the primacy of evidence and both claim that subjective feelings are the equivalent of knowledge.