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Quote by: Starboy If the creationist in question was a thoughtful honest individual your puzzle would be puzzling however if you question such people at length on a variety of other topics the cause of it becomes very clear. They are profoundly and willfully ignorant.
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I suppose it would be possible to find someone supporting any idea who is “
profoundly and willfully ignorant”. But we all should be careful of making generalizations of this nature, because some day we might be the “
profoundly and willfully ignorant” ones and the persons about whom we have made such generalizations be knowledgeable ones.
I also assert that any one of us here, if questioned at length on “
a variety of other topics” would also, at some point, show or own ignorance. This only means that none of us knows everything - which does not disqualify us from speaking on topics in which we are knowledgeable does it?
I think we should discuss the arguments themselves rather than make generalizations about the persons holding these views or using these arguments. Such generalizations show only our own biases (and possibly our ignorance of these views or arguments) and do not contribute to the discussion of ideas nor does it help us to understand the ideas of others and, in that understanding, possibly add to our own knowledge.