I agree with Glenn. The atheists I know tend to think that young-earth
creationism is a movement that impairs its adherents' powers of
observation. They don't understand why a religion that claims to have
spiritual answers for eternity would insist that its adherrents deny
reasonable physical inferences from a great volume of evidence. When I
have an opportunity to talk to an aheist about spiritual issues I generally
must first convince him that Christianity is about Jesus Christ, not the
age of the earth. Once he understands that, the tension subsides and we
can talk about what's important about Christianity.
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