> Most surprising was that of all the things we measured, biblical literalist interpretations amongst our students changed very little, but that small change was predictive enough of changes in acceptance of evolution,” Jensen said. “However, you’ll notice that students still score alarmingly high on biblical literalism even though they score extremely high on evolution acceptance measures.
Yeah, a biblical literalist can sustain some degree of cognitive dissonance for a while. I don’t see the benefit of paying lip service to evolution if you’re also going to believe at the same time that e.g., the Curse of Ham is real.
> Most surprising was that of all the things we measured, biblical literalist interpretations amongst our students changed very little, but that small change was predictive enough of changes in acceptance of evolution,” Jensen said. “However, you’ll notice that students still score alarmingly high on biblical literalism even though they score extremely high on evolution acceptance measures.
Yeah, a biblical literalist can sustain some degree of cognitive dissonance for a while. I don’t see the benefit of paying lip service to evolution if you’re also going to believe at the same time that e.g., the Curse of Ham is real.