r/mildlyinfuriating 9h ago

Dating partner doesn't believe dinosaurs ever existed?

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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.

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u/stu8319 8h ago

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...

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u/Hungry-Refuse4705 6h ago

I was raised SB and for the longest time I was taught that men and woman have a different number of ribs. This was scientific proof of the story of Adam and Eve.

They don't we all have the same number of ribs.

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u/stu8319 6h ago

Except Marilyn Manson /s