re: #295 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve run across a lot of engineers in the “intelligent design” camp of not evolution. Something in the mindset that goes with that profession I think.

One of my colleagues ,a brilliant computer programmer, was a religious fundamentalist, RWNJ (goes without saying), and an NRA fanatic. He was also a YEC. Knowledge of mathematics and logic doesn’t automatically lead to the correct analysis. Logic depends on the truth of your starting premise; if the initial premise is faulty, then so is everything that arises from that premise.

Very few YECs have read their entire Bible, especially in the original languages. They are regurgitating what they learned in church or religious classes.

I do have to say that most of the GOP donor class do not share this view. Unlike YEC, “Intelligent design” supporters do acknowledge the age of the earth. The Koch Bros do believe in evolution; they are the ultimate libertarian members of the GOP.