Religion and Education Level

[buffalo]

Sorry, I still don’t get the point you’re trying to make.

Humans are limited by our 5 senses, 3 dimensions and time. We can only see so much. There is much hidden as the right footprints are. God does not owe us the full view. What we can see needs to be illuminated by Revelation. This helps us get closer to truth.

 

[anEvilAtheist]

Young Earth Creationism is an opinion held by some Christians, but it isn’t necessary to the Christian faith. The world can be billions of years old, and Adam and Eve could even be billions of years old, and the essentials of Christianity aren’t really affected by that idea. All we are required to believe about the Creation is that, God created everything that is, both seen and unseen, and that Adam and Eve had no human ancestors, and they are the ancestors of every human being who has ever lived. If evolution is true, it seems less likely that a whole crowd of humans just suddenly popped up out of nowhere, but if two of them appeared, and they happened to live in the same place at the same time, so that they were able to reproduce, then there you have the human race.

I agree. I actually think that if “a whole crowd of humans just suddenly popped up out of nowhere”, that would pretty much disprove that humans came about by evolution.

I know that all Christians are not Young Earth Creationists. I was just using it as a quick example to show that some beliefs about God could be shown to be false. I am not even arguing that Young Earth Creationism is necessarily false. It’s logically possible that the Earth is 6000 years old just as it is logically possible that the Earth is 10 minutes old. But such beliefs might be incompatible with other beliefs.

 

[anEvilAtheist]

Humans are limited by our 5 senses, 3 dimensions and time. We can only see so much. There is much hidden as the right footprints are. God does not owe us the full view. What we can see needs to be illuminated by Revelation. This helps us get closer to truth.

Okay.

 

[jmcrae]

I agree. I actually think that if “a whole crowd of humans just suddenly popped up out of nowhere”, that would pretty much disprove that humans came about by evolution.

I know that all Christians are not Young Earth Creationists. I was just using it as a quick example to show that some beliefs about God could be shown to be false.

Right. But if that one belief is proven to be false, it doesn’t mean that God doesn’t exist, nor that Christianity (the essentials of it) is “wrong.” It just would mean that some Christians are mistaken about that particular set of ideas. If it turns out that that particular set of ideas needs to be taken out of Christianity, it really doesn’t affect anything else. Those individuals would just revise their understanding of how God created the world - something we are never actually told in any kind of official revelation. There are lots of Catholics who believe in evolution, and who believe that the Earth is billions of years old.

I am not even arguing that Young Earth Creationism is necessarily false. It’s logically possible that the Earth is 6000 years old just as it is logically possible that the Earth is 10 minutes old. But such beliefs might be incompatible with other beliefs.

Right. For that reason, it’s important to examine them, and if necessary, either revise them or throw them out. We are called to believe whatever is actually true. Things that are true tend to hang together and make sense.

 

[rwillenborg]

Interesting survey.
In my personal life, albeit with such a small sample size, I have found that those of a middle education, like a bachelor’s tend towards atheism. Those with a higher education than that, say a PhD or masters, somehow, during THAT process, found God again.

Go figure.

 

[Ignatius]

Why does the research show that the more educated a person becomes the less religious they are?

Flawed research!

 

[anEvilAtheist]

Right. But if that one belief is proven to be false, it doesn’t mean that God doesn’t exist, nor that Christianity (the essentials of it) is “wrong.” It just would mean that some Christians are mistaken about that particular set of ideas. If it turns out that that particular set of ideas needs to be taken out of Christianity, it really doesn’t affect anything else. Those individuals would just revise their understanding of how God created the world - something we are never actually told in any kind of official revelation. There are lots of Catholics who believe in evolution, and who believe that the Earth is billions of years old.

Right. For that reason, it’s important to examine them, and if necessary, either revise them or throw them out. We are called to believe whatever is actually true. Things that are true tend to hang together and make sense.

Well said. I agree.