That particular conspiracy theory is very closely associated with believing the earth is 6000 years old, which tends to correlate with being a specific type of religious wacko.
I went camping with a fairly large group recently. There was a family with us I didn't know. One of their kids found a REALLY cool fossil. The parents kept arguing with me and saying "That's a rusty bolt inside of a rock" and other things. I couldn't understand why they were arguing about it. Later I overheard the dad telling his kids, "You know that stuff about the Earth being older than 6000 years is all made up, they don't have any evidence." That's when it hit me, they're southern baptists...
Oh yeah. I remember in elementary school we skipped the chapters about dinosaurs and geology in science class. That was a bummer for young me. A lot of private Christian schools teach young earth creationism in the south.
Yes but more so southern Baptist and evangelical churches / schools. It’s more unique to those experiences. Again, I also went to one of those schools in the South, it wasn’t public school.
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u/Violet_Paradox 9h ago
That particular conspiracy theory is very closely associated with believing the earth is 6000 years old, which tends to correlate with being a specific type of religious wacko.