How's this analogy then: If I think I'm a Darwinian evolutionist (ToE), but believe in a young Earth and that Jesus died and rose again, does that still make it so?
You would still be wrong about the age of the earth. To my view the possible validity of a specific worldview is inversely related to the amount of objective empirical evidence that needs to be denied in order to maintain beliefs in a consistent manner.
This can be pursued further at
Age Correlations and An Old Earth, Version 2 No 1
Can I bridge that dichotomy of worldviews, just by my saying so?
No, not by just saying so, it has to come from understanding and an integration of the information into the worldview.
Not a true dichotomy, but certainly it creates cognitive dissonance. Can you believe something that must be false (a young earth)?
Christianity didn't die when the Earth was no longer believed to be the center of the universe did it?
Enjoy
Edited by RAZD, : worldview
Edited by RAZD, : cd, link