• brunchyvirus@fedia.io
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    I didnt know this existed but I’m not surprised, I’m sure tons of them have a Noah complex.

    I went to church while I was growing up, and learned that Christians believe the earth is 6000 years old.

    Carbon dating of dinosaur fossils show they are millions of years old.

    The response when I asked about this was that the dinosaurs died because they couldn’t fit on the ark.

    Every once in awhile the pastor liked to do a sermon or whatever trying to disprove some scientific idea. They wouldn’t argue logic though, they would just pick and choose wording in an article…because that is all they know picking and choosing words in a book so confirm to their worldview.

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      The one I always got was that evolution was just a theory. Not proven.

      Because in their world a theory is just an idea that may or may not be true.

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      I get Christians all the time telling me that the REAL Science is Christian because science was founded by Christians and that if I just look at the evidence…

      Weirdly they never have any evidence. Closest they get is rambling incoherently about Objective Morality. “Morals come from God!”

      They very obviously do not.

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      Yuppers. most YECs will typically go with something to the effect of dinosaur bones are very clever divine forgeries. They’ll say god did it for free will, or that satan did it to deceive us (conveniently ignoring that satan works for god…)

      It’s actually a lot like how kids tell a lie (“did you eat the fudge?”… “No”…) to explain what we all see. What anyone with the right equipment could go and observe. but they’re so convinced of the inherent infallibility of some illiterate goatherders that come up with ever increasingly wild explanations for why the science is wrong.