Back then it wasn't acceptable to admit you don't believe in god. How many people in Iran today admit they don't believe? Zero?And your scientific reality will only last until your next scientific reality. Ours is eternal.I the beginning there was gas. Billions of years later stars formed but not our sun or earth. That didn't happen for another 10 billion years.
Sounds very evolutionary. What evidences do we have for this?
Science math Einstein newton carbon dating etc. Evidence the ancients didn't have when they wrote the creation story.
Sorry if the truth conflicts with your story.
Don't you see how closed off to our common reality that kind of mentality is?
It smacks of a need for stability, certainty, an unchanging foundation for your system of beliefs and it's more emotional than it is rational.
It's as if you're saying that having an openness to change and uncertainty is a bad thing.
Not trying to understand and simply accepting a proposition without analysis or critical thought in the face of contradicting information is dogma and the very definition of closed mindedness.
If there is one thing about reality we can say with certainty it is that it is in a constant state of change.
I once took a course in college called "Political Science". The class was political and historical but in no way science. We have a lot of good science in the world but we also have what I would deem "Political Science". The theory of evolution is one such teaching. Many of the proponents of evolution are anti-religion. They not only oppose evolution but they oppose anything that would suggest intelligent design. It is very simplistic to write off religious people as not trying to understand. I imagine that many people might buy into this argument but it simply is not true. Some of our most notable scientists in history were religious, ie Newton, Galileo, DesCarte, Copernicus, Kepler, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, etc. Many of the universities in our country were established by religious organizations. You can label them as dogmatic and closed minded but they are the very foundation of your science.