I don't...Let people believe what they want to believe...Like you said, the info is out there for all of us to discover so if they choose not to well, so be it...

I can afford a few downrates, so here goes! I feel sorry when someone judges anyone for their beliefs. I feel sorry when people try to make others feel small by making such blanket statements. Genesis is a work that is worthy of much study and I admire all who have any opion whatsoever. It's when they start belittling each other that I feel very sorry.

Neither - I don't feel sorry for them at all because they are (hopefully) living a life which gives them comfort and happiness. I don't know if I would want to call such people ignorant and gullible just for having that faith, since I am sure many of them would quite easily say the same about me for believing in science. I think many who believe it is a literal account see a logic or reason to their arguments. It just happens to be a different kind or reason or logic to the one that disbelievers see. None of us know the truth of the matter, there is always room for doubt - however minute that may be for the people on both sides of the argument. It would be ignorant to think otherwise.

Faith is like a drug addiction. They are so dependent on faith that they are not willing to see the obvious facts right in front of their face. Denial is a trip, boy I tell yah. They believe that science is a threat to their life after death so they deny all facts and trust in things that they do not even know for sure are real. It's a classic case of denial. They should have RA groups for people like this, you know like AA, except it will be Religious Anonymous.

no, there's nothing to feel sorry for. many people that believe the Bible are anything but ignorant or uneducated. as a matter of fact, the most educated will tell you that there are gaping holes in the theory of evolution.

I feel sorry for people who are unwittingly duped by clever liars like those at Answersingenesis.org. However, you're right that education is available to all so it's kind of limited. +5

Yes, I do pity them sometimes...instead of acknowledging the facts and evidence that we have now, they choose to disregard all that and instead, say "God dun it."

I would never pity someone for having beliefs from which they derive comfort - it's when they start trying to ram their beliefs down my throat that I object!

I don't typically have any feeling about them or their belief in Genesis. I only bother with it when they start insisting everyone has to believe or that their belief should be taught in a science class. Then I just think they are unreasonable people.

Not at all. I am one who believes the Genesis account and I don't feel sorry for myself. Inserting "ignorant" and "gullible" into your question describing those who do believe the Genesis account takes away from your own credibility and adds absolutely nothing to your argument.

Please do not feel sorry for me, it is I whom feels sorry for you; sorry you cannot see nor understand the Truth of the Bible. There are too many whom want to pick and peck at it and do not understand the whole of that book. If it took place exactally as Genesis describes of if it is a parity of how things happened the fact remains it happened. The fact you were born happened and the processes that caused your birth are not completely understood today. So do not say someone is ignorant or gullible because they do not fully accept all modern day science which has done many good things for us all. Take electricity, we make it, we harness it, we use it in our everyday life, we can see it at various times and in various ways, we can feel it although not plesantly, but we still do not exactally electricity is; so do you say because we do not know what elecricity is we are ignorant and gullible? We whom believe in God and the Bible do not understand it fully either but we have faith in what it says is true, just as you have faith in science but you do not know everything about science either now do you?

I'm not sorry for them: I'm frightened of them. They seek to subvert my easy-going secular life that allows people do to pretty much what they like to do together into a world with policemen in the bedroom. They seek to impose the practical requirements of their mythology on me by limiting my freedom to choose sexual partners, to abort, or not abort unwanted foetuses, to undertake scientific research using stem cells, to limit my opportunity to choose death when life becomes intolerable, and they seek to teach their mythology in schools as though it were objective truth.

Okay, I'm back. Just because you refuse to absorb any information unless you feel you want to, (ie. not interested in minds from 5000 years ago), does not make you right. It makes you stuck. If you have read volumes of pseudoscience, please cite for me what you have read. Please tell me what proof you have that the science is pseudo? If I seem a little rude to you, that question at the top started it all with the "don't you feel sorry for people" condescending tone from someone who doesn't have a clue. I could give you a dozen cites and all it will do is have you come back with "it's not good enough". Don't weary my ears with this please.

Next as you love to worship at the ground of science. 'Recent advances in what theoretical physicists call "superstring theory" are leading science toward an understanding of the vibratory nature of creation. Brian Greene, Ph.D. professor of physics at Cornell & Columbia Universities writes in The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory... "During the last 30 years of his life, Albert Einstein sought relentlessly for a so-called unfied field theory-a theory capable of describing nature's forces within a single, all encompassing, coherent framework....

LoL...Why would you feel sorry for us? I think that is the last thing anybody wants from the cousins of a monkey.

Can't really say I feel sorry but such ignorance does scare the crap outta me!

Now...new proponents of string theory claim the threads of this elusive unified tapestry, finally have been revealed. "The theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate the evolution of the Universe." Professor Greene writes, that the "length of a typical string loop is...ABOUT ONE HUNDRED BILLION, BILLION TIMES SMALLER than an atomic neucleus." Greene explains by the end of the 20th Century science had determined that the physical universe was composed of a very few fundamental particles, i.e. quarks, electrons, and neutrinos.

I've typed this twice and it keeps disappearing, like the Universe. Recent advances in what theoretical physicists call "superstring theory" are leading science toward an understanding of the vibratory nature of creation. Brian Greene, Ph.D., professor of physics at Cornell University and Columbia Universities, writes in The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

I am both sorry that they wish to remain in their shell of ignorance, and resent them for doing so, because they're just stubborn about something that can be proven false.

No. I describe this type of behavior as voluntary stupidity.

I do feel sorry for you because you can't seem to accept that there are other points of view out there.

Actually, I feel sorry for people who are unable to understand that modern science would have meant nothing to bronze age shepherds. God told them what He did in terms they could understand. That does NOT make them ignorant or gullible.

yawn.

Some people need things to be put in a certain way in order for them to understand it. It's all good. I don't tell people how the world started, because I don't know any more than they do about the origin of mankind.

In this, the age of the internet, there is no excuse for ignorance, so I cannot say that I feel sorry for people who think that way.

Yes, I do feel sorry for them. But it's mainly because there are so many people who could lay out the actual facts in a way that might encourage them to listen, but who have too much fun insulting them by calling them ignorant and gullible. They're not ignorant -- they've received an education on this issue with which you disagree. (I disagree with it, too -- we're on the same side on this.) And, as to gullibility -- if you had a choice between trusting your parents and the church in which you were raised on the one hand, and someone who throws insults at you in blind posts on a website on the other, who would you listen to? Like I said, you and I are on the same side on this issue. But your question is not helping get to a resolution on the subject; the insults both implied and stated in your question pretty much guarantee that the targets of your criticism will not listen to you (us). Admittedly, convincing someone to change his or her mind on this issue through an exchange on AB is slim. But I'll take a slim possibility over a guaranteed impossibility any day. Sorry -- like I said, we're in agreement on the substance of this issue. I'd just ask you not to discount the possibility of a productive exchange with folks who have been raised in a faith tradition.

Most adults have been exposed and taught evolution at some level, which is a only rounding error in the overall picture. In the context of the universe, humans barely even exist. As far as Genesis is concerned, many people misunderstand and oversimplify the creation account. For example, insisting that the only "day" must be 24 hours long. Further, Genesis it is not designed, very obviously, to be a scientific dissertation as to how things occurred. Obviously, no book can do that because of the remarkable complexity.

The joke used to be: Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. Religion is a crutch for people who don't want to deal with reality. In many respects I see religion or certain aspects of it as mental illness. I don't see all religion that way, but if religion were a new concept and nobody had ever heard of it before than it would by all means be seen that way. The people who cram religion down others throats I have zero sympathy for and a zero tolerance policy. Cram it down my throat and you'll have a fight on your hands. I've also been down the road to believing it myself, but over the years I have never seen, heard nor felt anything whatsoever to lead me to believe any of it. My conclusion: It's all made up foolishness.

You are free to believe whatever you want. That does not give you the right to bash others, just as they don't have the right to bash you based on what they believe. Doing so, as you have done by asking this question in a hateful manner, just shows you to be an absolute prick. There is no reason to insult others in a question. Be nice or go away.

Why does a Christian have to be ignorant and gullible because of what they choose to believe in, and why does anyone need to feel sorry for them? People are entitled to believe what they want to in relation to creation or anything they want to without being ridiculed, we should all learn to respect other peoples beliefs, we don't have to accept them but we should respect them. If we all believed in the same things this world would be awful, we would all be like clones.