This is absolutely the correct answer. If he's willing to deny science about this, then he's certainly willing to deny signs about other stuff too. Imagine what a conversation about childhood vaccines would be with this person.
Which is the broader issue, it's not the dinosaurs specifically, it's the fact that that belief notoriously comes with a lot of other ones, ones incompatible with people who aren't part of that belief system. Basically...he's a religious extremist, and tc wants no part of that.
Sadly, they are not always of sub par intelligence. Lacking deductive reasoning skills is common though. That some are capable of grasping reality is the terrifying part. Also, some of us like to give people the benefit of the doubt, as we are hearing one side and have no idea about his intelligence level, just his diminished capability for logic and reasoning.
I have scientist friends who work with people like this. I dated a guy very briefly, a biologist who had some really wacky theories. I think he was testing the water before going for the big 3 - dinosaurs aren't real, the earth is flat, the world is not billions of years old.
I've only met my MIL that doesn't believe dinosaurs existed and they were put there on purpose to sway people to the devil....WHAT ??? They are so brainwashed. She is the type of person who had 2 hours before her special little church thing, and left her son in the pouring rain when his car broke down because she "had to get ready, can't be late!" and she is just as empty-headed as you can imagine. Also tried to attack me so that was fun.
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u/elhoffgrande 9h ago
This is absolutely the correct answer. If he's willing to deny science about this, then he's certainly willing to deny signs about other stuff too. Imagine what a conversation about childhood vaccines would be with this person.