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Originally Posted by jammies
This sounds like "I don't know what is wrong with the theory of evolution, but there must be something because it disagrees with how I'd like the world to work."
Doubt is a good thing, but used selectively it is just another way to close the mind by doubting only that which challenges one's convictions. That isn't intellectual freedom, that is being ruled by indoctrination. Freedom is where you put a different interpretation upon facts, not where they are rejected as being suspect because they don't fit into a pre-existing interpretation you've inherited from whatever authority guides your thinking.
There is a superficially modern idea that one's "opinion" is as valid as anyone else's even when it is directly contradicted by fact. This is evil and needs to be vigorously opposed. If your opinion is based on what you believe as opposed to what is known to be true, you aren't "different" or "steadfast" or "alternative" or "pious", you are just... wrong.
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Yes, I've been accused more than once of 'moral relativism' as though it was the worst thing in the world I could be when debating religion vs. atheism. On the other hand, I have yet to stoop to calling an opponent an intellectual relativist, applying different standards of evidence/proof to arguments depending on how well they agree with personal convictions.