That would mean there are thousands and thousands of Christian scientists who could disprove evolution in a heartbeat, but don’t follow through because they feel pressured. That just doesn’t jive with what I have heard from Christian scientists. Instead, it is the evidence they discovered during their education and training that convinced them that evolution was true. There’s a great example of exactly that in the thread below, especially post #6 by @swamidass :
Excellent thread @T_aquaticus . Thank you for pulling this together. This is exactly the sort of evidence that convinced me that evolution was not merely an “argument” (see @mercer ?), but offered effective and quantitative explanation of intricate details of biology. This was a watershed realization for me, because none of the ID or YEC argument learned ever taught me these things. It was not as if they had a solid rebuttal, they just did not know or did not engage with this sort of strong evidence.
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Another good example is Mary Schweitzer, who is famous for finding soft tissue in dinosaur fossils:
After earning an undergraduate degree in audiology, Schweitzer married and had three children. She went back to school at Montana State University in Bozeman for an education degree, planning to become a high school science teacher. But then she sat in on a dinosaur lecture given by Jack Horner, now retired from the university, who was the model for the paleontologist in the original Jurassic Park movie. After the talk, Schweitzer went up to Horner to ask whether she could audit his class.
“Hi Jack, I’m Mary,” Schweitzer recalls telling him. “I’m a young Earth creationist. I’m going to show you that you are wrong about evolution.”
“Hi Mary, I’m Jack. I’m an atheist,” he told her. Then he agreed to let her sit in on the course.
Over the next 6 months, Horner opened Schweitzer’s eyes to the overwhelming evidence supporting evolution and Earth’s antiquity. “He didn’t try to convince me,” Schweitzer says. “He just laid out the evidence.”
She rejected many fundamentalist views, a painful conversion. “It cost me a lot: my friends, my church, my husband.” But it didn’t destroy her faith. She felt that she saw God’s handiwork in setting evolution in motion. “It made God bigger,” she says.https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/i-don-t-care-what-they-say-about-me-paleontologist-stares-down-critics-her-hunt
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