Intelligent? Yes. Critical? Only to a certain extent - they certainly aren't very critical about their world view. IOW, they don't even question the 'fact' of a billions-year-old-Earth. It's downhill from there.
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Yes, people are so sheep-like for not questioning the "billions-of-years" conclusion reached by multiple lines of scientific dating techniques. Instead, we should believe that it was a few million years ago, because why not. Or a few thousand years, because I love the Bible and want to believe that it is a complete account of all of existence. Or a few hundred years ago, because seriously, if I am ignoring all those other kinds of evidence, why not?
If I did want to question it, there's tons of evidence to verify the age of the earth.
Also, you owe me a new irony meter.
>>IOW, they don't even question the 'fact' of a billions-year-old-Earth.<<
Actually, I did. Then I took a gamma-ray counter and got very approximate radioisotope ages for a few rocks. They were each over a billion years old.
Your Argument Is Invalid.
I accepted our ball of dirt's age of approximately 4.5 billion years at a very young age. Clearly even at a young age I understood science more than you do. (Seriously, when I was a kid, science was my favorite subject, and nowadays I'm a technology nerd.)
You're the ones that are going downhill. Just because you base your whole philosophy of life on patently false premises (like a few thousand year old earth) doesn't mean the more sane amongst us should ignore the facts.
And it is a fact that the earth is billions of years old. You may take the view that all the evidence pointing towards an old earth is faked and was put there by god to test faith blah blah blah, but following that logic (?) the world could have been created last Tuesday.
Frankly, questioning the truth seems like a waste of time and I'd rather leave that to you numbskulls.
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