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Have any of you met a "Creationist"? I briefly lived next door to such a family a few years ago whilst working overseas.

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related to them. My mother is one. Decent person just completely irrational on that veiwpoint

RobH86 Level 7 May 5, 2018
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Of course there's Young Earth Creationism and Old Earth Creationism. The former takes the '6 days and 6 nights' thing literally, and believes you can simply add up the ages of everyone in the Bible to arrive at an age of the universe at a few thousand years. The latter doesn't believe that those 6 days and nights were literally 24 hour periods, and accepts that each one may have taken an unspecified period of time, ranging from days to millions of years. The latter isn't at odds with the theory of evolution (it merely believes that God planted the seeds of life, and has perhaps steered its direction over time.) This is the official stance of Catholicism at this point, so if you know a suitably devout Catholic, you know an Old Earth Creationist.

Young Earth Creationism is a fairly recent and very American phenomenon, and is clearly bonkers. It should be perfectly clear to anyone that certain parts of the Bible are fables imparting moral guidance rather than factual accounts. The Great Flood being one of the obvious ones.

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If one thing presses my buttons it's creationists.

They queue in line in their cars, decked out in evolution ridiculing bumper stickers waiting to fill up with fossil fuels so they can go home and mindlessly use the technology, borne of the science they also ridicule.

@beansontoast #gaytheist let's get that trending on posts about computers!

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Yes, a friend I had from childhood moved to America to go to university. She came back a creationist!

Irony

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I was one!

I was raised to believe that tosh but it never added up. Most of my family remain creationists, rabidly evangelical and generally deprived of my company as it's often too hard work having contact with them.

Eastrenbi Level 5 May 5, 2018
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Worked with one she was an antivaxer aswell , she carried a bible around all the time. She tried telling me I'd hear God in my head so I told her if she heard voices to get some medication lol

Simon1 Level 7 May 5, 2018

@beansontoast then your gonna love this next part . Whenever I gave her evidence for anything her response was "science is just an opinion "

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Yes a friend of my daughter, ( alay preacher with a quite powerful civil service position,) one evening he got very upset when during an otherwise innocuous conversation I made a joke about Christians believing the world to be only 6000 years old.
He went very quiet, his wife put her head down and we were all treated to a fifteen minute lecture on how ignorant and bigoted "Darwinists" are, he then excused them both and told my daughter she was welcome, but they would not visit her house again if we were present, and that for her own spiritual well being she should consider what kind of relationship she wanted with us.
I was utterly "gobsmacked" for want of a better word, by the arrogance and stupidity of such a seemingly educated man.

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No never but would like to. I remember talking to some Jehovah's Witnesses. I spent 30 minutes unpacking the idea around eternity. Wondering what we could do to fill our time and when we discussed knowing everything there was to know and knowing everything about everyone there would still be an eternity to fill... they left with something to think about. 🙂

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