evolution doesnt contradict the Bible The Bible says Earth and humans were created in 7 days but those are 7 days for God, and we dont know how long a day is for God, and it was written before the 24 hour system
Comment on Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I once had an elder coworker who said all the dinosaurs died in Noah’s great flood. I’d try reasoning with him but ultimately it was way more fun to ask him if god could create a rock that he couldn’t lift.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 week ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
There’s people out there that think everything written in the King James version of the bible are literally true and allegories do not exist.
They refuse to comprehend that it could be any other way.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Or ask if round earth is a massive conspiracy, what’s the angle? How does getting people to believe in a flat earth rather than a round one serve an agenda to the point where even a simple test that could prove the flatness always “goes wrong”? And if they say that the experimenters get threatened or something, why do they generally remain as confused flat earthers afterwards? If they were going to be threatened, why half-ass it and let them continue pushing flat earth instead of making them change sides?
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I tend to find people who are a bit crazy/conspiracy brained tend to easily accept other people’s motives as being insane as their own reasoning.
Similar to how one can’t logic themselves into a position they fought against logic to get into, I don’t think people can usually empathize their way out of a position they fought against empathy to get into. There’s
Imo that’s why ridicule is maybe more effective even though it will entrench some of them. The conspiracy aspect is hardest to explain with raw quantity though. Its like “there are like 10-20 million people in america who interface with NASA and plane pilots and like 200 million americans who interact with airlines and can vouch for every flight path, you think all these people are all in cahoots?”
tmyakal@infosec.pub 1 week ago
I used to work with a guy who was also a Methodist pastor. Most of our conversations were perfectly normal and fine, but every once in a while he would be like, “So where do you think the government is hiding the nephilim fossils?”