You cannot claim to know the truth when you openly reject facts. How can evangelical leaders be surprised their young people are leaving in droves when they preach "Truth, truth" from the pulpit, but blatantly ignore truth on a daily basis, and worse, make such hypocrisy a litmus test of their faith? Evangelical Christianity is cutting off its nose to spite its face, and when it is done with its nose, it will move on to another body part. It's only a matter of time until it lances a vital organ.

"[T]he evidence for evolution (is) now piled so high that not even one evolutionary biologist at any of America’s research universities rejects the theory. Evolution is as widely accepted in biology departments as gravity is in physics departments. In time, Darwin’s dangerous idea should (have) become widely accepted, just as Christians gradually gave credence to Galileo’s dangerous idea about the motion of the earth. We were hopeful that these evangelical students would become leaders of their faith communities and gradually persuade their fellow evangelicals that evolution was not a lie from hell—which was what many of them had been taught in Sunday school. But that is not what is happening. [I]nstead, scientifically informed young evangelicals became so alienated from their home churches that they walked away, taking their enlightenment with them. Anti-evolution, and general suspicion of science, has become such a significant part of the evangelical identity that many people feel compelled to choose one or the other. Many of my most talented former students no longer attend any church, and some have completely abandoned their faith traditions."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/02/2013-was-a-terrible-year-for-evolution.html

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