I would rather the opposite. Someone 2ho chooses to be a devout Christian without subscribing to the day/age theory or the gap theory is likely to have the morals necessary to be a good leader. You can't be a bible thumper and a pathological liar like 99 percent of politicians are. I can't imagine a scenario where a presidents belief in what age the earth is would have any bearing whatsoever on a policy decision or any kind of national security. So I don't see where there could possibly be a downside. You have a leader with great morals and integrity and no negative consequences to their interpretation of the bible. I can see the atheists asinine argument would be that his belief would mean that he denies science or is easily fooled. Radioactive carbon dating is not all of science. Nobody alive today was alive at creation...and records don't go back that far either. So it takes faith to try and date the earth or universe regardless of what one believes. Either you believe in the accuracy of a very narrow portion of science, which often is very erratic and undependable (2 sample of the same piece of limestone can give dates millions of years apart) or you believe in a literal interpretation of the dates and lifespans of 5he bible. Both beliefs take faith. One takes faith on man, the other in God. I've seen far too much of the ignorance and outright stupidity of man to put 100 percent of my faith in anything man does. I don't know how old the earth is bit I know that believing it is 6000 years old does not make one a moron.
Doesn't make someone a moron for not knowing how old the earth is if they read the Bible but factually it appears that it's wrong. Scientists and theories have been wrong, even Hawking has been wrong. I'd venture to say the Bible is wrong because I think other things in the bible don't make sense. Jonah and the whale or Noah's ark for example. Not that I need Bill Nye to convince me but he knocks it out of the park(imo).
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I have nothing against the Bible and Christians. I used to be on the fence but in recent years I've gone away from it because believing in God and praying never really did much for me. To me it's more of a book of fairy tales that teaches moral values. So, I do think most people who follow the Bible try to follow those values which is a good thing as long as they're tolerant of others. Given what flies these days, it's not like Christians are using the Bible to prevent people from doing mostly what they please. Though, you could argue that people who believe in the Bible could be holding us back scientifically.
To each their own, but I like figuring out the world as opposed to simply accepting the Bible's take on it using blind faith. As long as Christians don't care that science does it's thing, I don't see the issue. Really the only negative about it is some of the brain power wasted that science could have used. Like you said, believing that the world is only 6,000 years old doesn't make someone a moron because many intelligent/successful people believe in the Bible and commit their life to it. I just personally think that some of it is factually wrong given what we now know and that it's curbing people down a different path which is good morally but probably wrong scientifically.
I always found the double slit experiment to be interesting when it comes to God.
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Didn't Einstein go from being atheist to believing in God before his death? Not because he was dying but just based on experiments. I thought he came to the conclusion that there must be something bigger than us. I don't know... information is always being filtered in and out. Could be wrong, it's been a while since I've read about him.
