Sometimes a pattern of an individual's learning beliefs about X ends up something like this path over time:
1. X? I don't know anything about X.
2. X is TRUE.
3. X is FALSE!!! (How silly to think it was TRUE! I'm on a higher plane of existence now!)
4. X is generally TRUE, but with caveats Y and Z.
5. X seems less relevant than P, Q, and R.
6. Better understanding of P, R, T, and V. But Q doesn't seem as important as it used to.
At each step of understanding evolution, someone at an earlier step of belief evolution probably seems less enlightened.
And someone at a later step, along the same path, might also seem less enlightened. (Unless you have an opportunity to understand their thinking, and choose to take it, and are able to understand it.)
1. X? I don't know anything about X.
2. X is TRUE.
3. X is FALSE!!! (How silly to think it was TRUE! I'm on a higher plane of existence now!)
4. X is generally TRUE, but with caveats Y and Z.
5. X seems less relevant than P, Q, and R.
6. Better understanding of P, R, T, and V. But Q doesn't seem as important as it used to.
At each step of understanding evolution, someone at an earlier step of belief evolution probably seems less enlightened.
And someone at a later step, along the same path, might also seem less enlightened. (Unless you have an opportunity to understand their thinking, and choose to take it, and are able to understand it.)