Reply #130: I once knew a geologist...

[InvisibleTouch]

...a GEOLOGIST, mind you, who dealt with the slow petrification of sediment into stone over unimaginable eons, who dealt with fossils from the very dawn of the world and could date and place them on the geologic timeline in her sleep - who was a young-earth fundie creationist. Now THERE is some serious compartmentalization for you!

To her credit, none of us students ever knew, because she never let on. Only in retrospect, once we'd learned the news, did we remember how she would subtly emphasize the "theoretical" aspects of evolution and the dating of fossils. But she never let her beliefs interfere with her job. One wonders why she went into that field to begin with, of course - or maybe it was a mid-stream conversion.