<p>respect for him/her?</p>
<p>I’m just wondering about people’s responses to this question in particular.</p>
<p>Most people don’t seem to care whether a person is religious or not. however, it seems that once the line goes to evolution, then strong sentiments (esp. the scientific community) start to get expressed</p>
<p>Yes. I also lose respect for people’s ideas and intellectual capacity when they say they are religious. Luckily, I don’t particularly have to respect a person’s ideas to get along with them.</p>
<p>Yes, absolutely.</p>
<p>This is distinct from being religious - one can be very devoutly religious and still accept the theory of evolution, because it makes absolutely no statement as to what set the evolutionary processes in motion.</p>
<p>However, it is completely irrational to believe that the creation myth in the Bible is anything other than just that - a myth. You cannot be a person of logic and reason and believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old.</p>