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My response to young earth creationists is, "God worked really hard to make it look like the Earth is billions of years old. Shouldn't we respect His wishes and
by MPSimmons 5y ago
My response to young earth creationists is, "God worked really hard to make it look like the Earth is billions of years old. Shouldn't we respect His wishes and just go with it?"
- CamperBob2 5y agoThere's a T-shirt for that: https://amorphia-apparel.com/teach/devil-a-burying-dinosaur-bones-fossils-creationist-shirt#!/ https://amorphia-apparel.com/teach/devil-a-burying-dinosaur-... Religion teaches you how to rationalize literally anything, for better or worse. I suspect it wouldn't have evolved as part of human culture if there wasn't a need for it.
- im_down_w_otp 5y agoIndeed! I expect that it's very useful as a function to avoid the deleterious effects of inescapably embracing the pessimistic version of existentialism. "Religion: An Evolutionary Pressure To Bother With Any Of It At All" :-)
- awb 5y agoThe trump card is faith. Anything that appears to contradict a belief can instead be seen as a test of faith. Some go so far as attribute that challenge of faith to a bad actor like the Devil.