But of course you scientists don't demonstrate closed mindedness in the slightest, do you? Take a close look at your own attitude to the subject of creation.
You didn't make a case for closed-mindedness. Open-mindedness is nothing more or less that the willingness and ability to evaluate an argument and its supporting evidence impartially and the be convinced by a compelling argument.
There is no duty to accept ideas like creationism, only to consider them fairly. It lacks both the evidence and the compelling argument. There is no way to believe in creationism except by faith.
There is no objectivity in evolutionary science.....it is all based on a pre-conceived notion that is woven into every conclusion. You talk about all this evidence, and yet when it is examined, it is all based on assumptions, not facts. You all act like its based on real evidence, but its not real...it is manufactured in the scientist's imagination and given credence in its literature and diagrams. I don't believe it.
Once creationism is accepted by faith,a faith based confirmation bias arises,one which filters through the evidence and, as the name suggests, only allows you to see that which supports your faith based belief.
I learned something very interesting from a Christian geologist and creationist named Glenn Morton who had been a young earth creationist (YEC), but eventually, due to his professional education and experience, became on old earth creationist (OEC).
He explained that when people like himself report that they can't see the evidence, or can't see how what is presented constitutes evidence, they aren't lying. In fact, they think the people disagreeing with them are the ones being dishonest.
Morton described what he called Morton's demon, which is the anthropomorphizing of the blinding process that follows the advent of a faith based confirmation bias. Morton invokes an imaginary demon who sits at the portal to your mind and admits some idea while blocking others according to whether they support or contradict the ideas believed by faith. Here is what he reports
"Thus was born the realization that there is a dangerous demon, Morton''s demon <
Creation Science, Morton's Demon >, on the loose. When I was a YEC, I had a demon that did similar things for me that Maxwell's demon did for thermodynamics. Morton's demon was a demon who sat at the gate of my sensory input apparatus and if and when he saw supportive evidence coming in, he opened the gate. But if he saw contradictory data coming in, he closed the gate. In this way, the demon allowed me to believe that I was right and to avoid any nasty contradictory data. Fortunately, I eventually realized that the demon was there and began to open the gate when he wasn't looking.
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"The demon makes its victim feel very comfortable as there is no contradictory data in view. The demon is better than a set of rose colored glasses. The demon's victim does not understand why everyone else doesn't fall down and accept the victim's views. After all, the world is thought to be as the victim sees it
[snip]
"But one thing that those unaffected by this demon don't understand is that the victim is not lying about the data. The demon only lets his victim see what the demon wants him to see and thus the victim, whose sensory input is horribly askew, feels that he is totally honest about the data. The victim doesn't know that he is the host to an evil parasite and indeed many of their opponents don't know that as well since the demon is smart enough to be too small to be seen."
I find Morton sincere and credible. If he says that he was blind to this process, as counterintuitive as that claim may seem, I believe him. The mystery is how he broke free. There must have been a seed of skepticism still in him somewhere.
This process also goes by the name "antiprocessing"
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Antiprocess - Wikipedia - "is the preemptive recognition and marginalization of undesired information by the interplay of mental defense mechanisms: the subconscious compromises information that would cause cognitive dissonance."
Plants were here long before there were creatures to eat them. It was all part of earth's preparation to support life.
Plants are life.
Most of the earth's problems can be laid at the feet of irresponsible scientists.......
Are you aware that scientists are not the same as the politicians and businessmen that deploy the discoveries of science?
Are you aware that there are problems not caused by scientists, like unemployment, racism, going to war on false pretenses, and parasitic infections of the eye that cause blindness?
Scientists caused none of these, but may be able to help with the last one.
