"Todd S. Greene" wrote:
> Hi, John.
>
> It isn't lying, because lying, to me anyway, means that the person has
> set out to purposely deceive. But what very many YECs, in my experience,
> practice is an attitude of being "obstinate in error." By this I mean
> that they purposely ignore and obstinately refuse to acknowledge clear,
> unequivocal contradictory information, and thus obstinately refuse to
> correct the erroneous information that they believe and promote.
A traditional term for this is "invincible ignorance."
George
George L. Murphy
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
"The Science-Theology Interface"
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