@elon_musk_oil #192113
In a way Ken Ham himself does pose a problem for the theory of Natural Selection, in that natural selection should have weeded people like him out.
I expect that this is a hyperbolic joke and that I'm overly pedantic... Just for prosperity and to state the obvious, of course, that would only work if pseudohistorical beliefs were disastrous enough to prevent survival up to the reproductive age, or to prevent finding a mate, or prevents the new generation to reach maturity and reproduce.
Then this may only be disastrous for the particular individual or family, because false beliefs don't depend on genes. This also means that even an "eugenics" program attempting to "eradicate false belief" would fail. Thus, indoctrination programs also cannot alter genes, obviously. So when groups kill eachother for ideological reasons, they cannot eradicate the ideology, only oppress its adherents.
As for intelligence, it's an interesting paradox, intelligent people are also able to alienate themselves from reality using sophisticated symbolic arguments and even in academia someone may remain lost in idealist philosophy, despite the fact that specific philosophical movements were more successful to discover reality. And a language like mathematics can serve to represent complex systems, that attempt to explain reality, or a completely imaginary system. This means that people need some kind of direction, which is where indoctrination systems exploit the vulnerability to mislead (and disinformation systems, to confuse). Unfortunately, when a false belief is considered to be part of a value system, a subset of society may consider it "education", even when evaluated to be indoctrination (and possibly part of a radicalization system) by more objective independent observers...
