christians defend some fairly stupid **** in the bible, they go to crazy lengths to think of ways that the book that says that the earth is a disk with a dome over it could be literally factually true when it's now so absolutely obvious that the world is a sphere in a void with a layer of atmosphere over it.
why do they do this? why can they not admit even to themselves that the bible might have a few factual errors in it? the answer is simple they believe that the bible is infalable and if one part of it is wrong then all of it must be wrong, this absolutist attitude is their greatest weakness as it makes it imposable for them to change their mind or question anything that they think is supported by the bible. by losing the ability to question, they lose the ability to progress.
now, is it possible that this weakness may have infected the minds of some of the people who accept that science is the answer to all things? that they refuse to consider, even to themselves, anything that might undermine any part of current scientific understanding because if one scientific discipline has a systemic flaw then the authority of all would be put into question? wouldn't this however be the true undermining of science? to be unable to question the validity of something, to HAVE TO accept the word of some other authority figure, if you lose the ability to question and independently verify based on physical evidence aren't you just trading priests for Phds?
