pragmatism

Occham’s razor favours the simplest solution.
Water favours the path of least resistance.
People prefer the most pragmatic belief.

Belief in a 6000 year-old earth is pragmatic in the sense that it keeps your worldview nice and simple.

Belief in an old earth is also pragmatic in that it allows for a diversity of origins possibilities: and that flies more efficiently in the neurological passages of the critical mind.

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