I cannot blithly accept that many notable scientists and intellectuals are simply "blinded"
Comment assumes the atheists at issue would accept evidence for God. The evidence proves they won't and will utilize all their ability to suppress it.
The blinding is corroborated by the fact that the Emperor has no clothes. There is no evidence for macroevolution, except by assumption. Assumptions are not evidence. Macroevolution is one of two most extraordinary claims of all time, yet all the "evidence" is by assumption AND the fear of speaking up and saying the ToE/Emperor has no evidence/clothes.
The blinding penalty drives the assumption; the blinding penalty exists in the same context that the world accepts the existence of Christ on and all that He said.
My up-coming article will show how YOUR view (TEism) leads the way in suffering the penalty. Either way the Bible is/will be proven true.
Ray