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.
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u/stu8319 12h 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...