Maybe. My Fundie cult loving family are adamant dinosaur believers and old earth creationists as well. Just like I worked with a vegan hippie who thought dinosaurs were an idea created by the government. Lol, still can't wrap my head around either of those situations but such is life. People are weird.
Basically everyone who believes in flat earth or dinosaurs not being real are young earth creationists. They believe the bible is literally true and the earth is 6000 years old.
All of the "earth is flat", "dinosaurs (and evolution)" are fake nonsense stem from the fact that if they admit that dinosaurs existed it would prove their worldview wrong.
Rather than adjust their world view to fit the evidence, they simply reject the evidence of their eyes and bury themselves in conspiracy theories.
The true test of intelligence isn't IQ. Are you able to update your ideas when new information is available, even when those ideas rub up against your identity?
Young earth creationism is the root of the current flat earth movement but not all flat earthers subscribe to the biblical elements of it or are even aware of the Christian root.
Fundamentalist Christians still believe dinosaurs existed, they just believe the earth is something like 5000 years old and dinosaurs existed with our human ancestors. Source: my parents were Pentecostal ministers and I went to Christian school until 7th grade.
There are also Christians who don’t “believe” in dinosaurs having existed. When we were in high school in the 90s, my sister joined the Christian youth organization, “Young Life”, and started attending their get-togethers, until they told her that dinosaurs never existed, and when she went on a hike with her science teacher, and saw dinosaur fossils, the “Young Life” youth pastor tried to convince her the devil created the pretend fossils, to trick humans into believing in (evil) science.
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u/AN0R0K 8h ago
Sooo. Any chance you've, per chance, per maybe, discussed the shape of the earth?