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In a post entitled "Why don't More Scientists Believe in Creation?" and dated 5 January Ken Ham quotes one of his tame researchers as follows (My emphasis):
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believe surveys say around 97% of professional scientists hold evolution.
Understandably many people want to know why, if the evidence for biblical
creation is so compelling, so many scientists still reject it. Well, the same
surveys show that probably at least 70% of professional scientists are
non-Christians. We know from Romans 1 that non-Christians have a spiritual bias
and deliberately suppress the truth. So the Scripture tells us that, yes, the
vast majority of them have a compelling spiritual reason to ignore what we’re
saying. And so, practically, the way it works itself out, is they never bother
to consider it.
Firstly, meaning of terms: To fundamentalists like Ham and his ilk "Creation" equates to their brand of "Creationism". For these fundamentalists even evangelicals like William Dembski and Hank Hanegraaf are heretics who have succumbed to the deliberate deception of mainstream science.
Although I wouldn't classify Ham and his following as out-and-out cultists and conspiracy theorists the above quote shows that Ken Ham has already in place important psychological components which are present in the cultic mindset; in particular, the paranoiac suspicion that those who disagree with him do so with a guilty conscience and are deliberately covering up. It wouldn't take much to evolve Ham into a fully blown cultist and conspiracy theorist.
Of course, the ego of Ken Ham and co would find it very difficult to accept the real reason why they are ignored; namely, that they are extremists whose extremism has perverted their understanding of science. Professional scientists have better things to do than waste time rebutting every error of fundamentalist "science".
BTW: Romans 1 isn't about atheism; it's about idolatry, the misrepresentation of God. Whatever else they were the Romans weren't atheists.
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