Ruth Harris
Token Christian,retired bad-ass level tech support
“God said he did it in six days.”
I find this very sad. This is not someone who had no education or bad education; this is a man who was very intelligent and well educated. He had the luck to be one of the few people who actually walked on another world.
And he wound up becoming a biblical literalist. I just can’t understand how someone with his life experience could come to that conclusion. There were many Christians among those who went to the moon (I remember watching the Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis on Christmas 1968, and I also read in later years about Buzz Aldrin taking communion on the moon) but none of them ever questioned the scientific consensus about the age of the universe until he did.
If someone this intelligent can be convinced that a literal reading of the Bible is the truth, it is possible that anyone could be. That is a frightening thought to me. Even though he does not take the stance that only those with his worldview are actually Christian – many YEC believers do. I suspect the majority of them consider it a defining characteristic of Christians given my experience with them.
Do you find this as surprising as I do?
Ruth
I find this very sad. This is not someone who had no education or bad education; this is a man who was very intelligent and well educated. He had the luck to be one of the few people who actually walked on another world.
And he wound up becoming a biblical literalist. I just can’t understand how someone with his life experience could come to that conclusion. There were many Christians among those who went to the moon (I remember watching the Apollo 8 astronauts read from Genesis on Christmas 1968, and I also read in later years about Buzz Aldrin taking communion on the moon) but none of them ever questioned the scientific consensus about the age of the universe until he did.
If someone this intelligent can be convinced that a literal reading of the Bible is the truth, it is possible that anyone could be. That is a frightening thought to me. Even though he does not take the stance that only those with his worldview are actually Christian – many YEC believers do. I suspect the majority of them consider it a defining characteristic of Christians given my experience with them.
Do you find this as surprising as I do?
Ruth