{"id":873,"date":"2008-04-28T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/04\/28\/creationism-and-intellectual-black-holes\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:54:00","slug":"creationism-and-intellectual-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2008\/04\/28\/creationism-and-intellectual-black-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism, and intellectual black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SBYCrzpScfI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/hxs442L-cX8\/s1600-h\/BlackHole.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3KcDDpUUfo\/SBYCrzpScfI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/hxs442L-cX8\/s400\/BlackHole.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Incidentally, has anyone got any information regarding Young Earth Creationists who have ceased being Young Earth Creationists (or even become atheists)?<\/p>\n<p>And have any once confirmed atheists ever ended up YECs?<\/p>\n<p>While lots of religious have become atheists, and vice verse, I am guessing there are very few examples of either of these categories.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect (though it&#8217;s speculation, I admit), that Young Earth Creationism is an <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlaw.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/intellectual-black-hole.html\">intellectual black hole<\/a> &#8211; that the psychological and other forces that make religion so seductive become so concentrated in the U.S. version of YEC that they reach a critical mass: so that, once you&#8217;re in, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">there&#8217;s no way out again<\/span> (certainly, not by means of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">reason<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>But I would like to be proved wrong&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incidentally, has anyone got any information regarding Young Earth Creationists who have ceased being Young Earth Creationists (or even become atheists)? And have any once confirmed atheists ever ended up YECs? While lots of religious have become atheists, and vice verse, I am guessing there are very few examples of either of these categories. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creationism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}