Would you be surprised to learn that Mrs. Schweitzer herself denies that her research points to a recent creation?
This drives Schweitzer crazy. Geologists have established that the Hell Creek Formation, where B. rex was found, is 68 million years old, and so are the bones buried in it. She’s horrified that some Christians accuse her of hiding the true meaning of her data. “They treat you really bad,” she says. “They twist your words and they manipulate your data.” For her, science and religion represent two different ways of looking at the world; invoking the hand of God to explain natural phenomena breaks the rules of science. After all, she says, what God asks is faith, not evidence. “If you have all this evidence and proof positive that God exists, you don’t need faith.1
The kicker? She decribes herself as a Christian.
At least she doesn’t seem to falsify her data to fit into her evolutionary framework.
re: Schweitzer (a self-described Christian) explaining how awful creationists are and how they use her work to twist their own warped view of the world...
I notice no one responded to her words after 60+ replies on this thread.
More cognitive dissonance on display from the creationist crowd.
I love it.